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...Microsoft lovefest? It could be, as Torricelli says, that the company has done a lot of good. But it may also be because Gates & Co., having shunned the political fray for years, have become overnight capital insiders. Microsoft has made $1.7 million in campaign contributions so far this election cycle. It's now the nation's sixth largest soft-money donor, and its lobbying staff boasts four former members of Congress...
...spending in their constituencies. The Census Bureau has taken little time out of its schedule to respond to political attacks, leaving that role to President Clinton and newspapers like the New York Times, which called Lott's preliminary resistance "irresponsible." But while they're staying out of the political fray, the bureau has invested heavily in television ads, currently in rotation across the country, which depict various and wholly unpleasant effects of dismissing the importance of a census form. A young mother struggling to hold down a job without the benefit of a local Head Start program, a farmer...
High-powered Washington attorney Gregory Craig, who defended Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial, has entered the fray as Juan Miguel's lawyer--raising hopes for a quicker end to the case. But Craig, who told TIME he took the job in part because he too has a six-year-old boy, says not even he knows yet when the father will come for Elian...
IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) are usually the domain of Cambridge's start-up Internet companies. But Cambridgeport Bank is now joining the fray, but not without facing public scrutiny...
...full-scale war at home and abroad. We won't be able to mobilize our supplies because the USPS will control both land and air and it's tough to e-mail a humvee. We won't be able to mobilize our troops because China's entry into the fray will give them a billion person edge in any game of Last Man Standing. About all we will be able to mobilize is our white flags, which we will then valiantly wave until the shelling stops...