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Oliver has fine-tuned the structure he inherited from the 2000 campaign, and built on a core group of fund raisers called Pioneers who each brought in $100,000. Instead of disbanding the group after Bush won, Oliver nurtured it. After victories by Ronald Reagan and the first Bush, "we left people alone for a couple of years," says a G.O.P. lobbyist, who noted that Oliver "made people feel they were part of a network that never ended." If your kid needed a photo with the President, Oliver made it happen. He kept in touch with fund raisers by conference...
Where has the fine art of the insult gone? there was a time in Europe when the cutting gibe was a respected weapon in political discourse. Lady Astor, Winston Churchill's nemesis, once said to him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee." Churchill didn't demand an apology or file a human-rights complaint. He just shot back: "And if I were your husband I would drink it." But these days we get the insult without the art, and so we respond with self-righteous outrage. Last week, when a German Member...
...year after scrapping its last attempt at a stock market flotation after a slide in share prices, British telephone-directories group Yell announced plans for a $3.3 billion public offering, the largest in London in two years. Insurance For Cheats A Finnish group is offering to pay the fines of Helsinki public-transport users caught riding without a ticket. For €15 a month, pummit.org will pick up a one-off €50 fine for jumping the turnstile...
...center aims to make fine cheeses accessible to everyone through its website, artisanalcheese.com There's also a cheese-of-the-month club that delivers a monthly selection of three crafted cheeses. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc. Compared with Napa Valley, Calif., the East End is a blip in terms of wine production--500,000 cases annually, a small fraction of California's 155 million cases, most of it from Northern California. But for a summertime excursion, Long Island offers visitors fine wines and a unique blend of East Coast charm with scenery reminiscent of southern France. "Very recently people have woken up to the fact that this is a great unexploited area," says Lettie Teague, wine editor of Food & Wine. "There are pioneers out there, people who have gained great respect...