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...championing, McCain barked that New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, who had prepared a chart outlining the costs of McCain's proposal, was a "chickens___." Other colleagues are the subject of his barracks humor when they are not around. In June 1998 the Arizonan got up at a Washington G.O.P. fund raiser and told a profoundly demeaning joke about Chelsea Clinton. McCain, who has three daughters, later wrote a letter of apology to the President...
McCain's unified-field theory has room for issues ranging from voter apathy (people don't bother voting because they believe money runs the show) to abortion (organizations on both sides use the bitter fight for fund raising and don't want to find areas of compromise). He even finds a place for stubbornly local issues such as education. Move against corporate welfare, he says, and you can free up cash to help poor kids attend better schools. He suggests putting an end to $5.4 billion in sugar, ethanol and gas-and-oil subsidies and spending it on a three...
...hothead but as a warrior against the "special interests," ranging from trial lawyers to tobacco makers who have government in a choke hold. If there is, as Bush has said, a crisis of cynicism about government, Bush has put a match to it with his high-octane fund raising. McCain, with his 50 staff members to Bush's 150, working out of a condemned one-story building in Virginia, isn't out giving big policy speeches. He just stands in town-hall meetings hour after hour answering questions about how to fix a broken system...
...latter included doing laundry and mending for her father, as well as providing him with medicinal compounds. Maria Celeste was the convent's herbalist and, judging from her elegantly phrased appeals to her well-connected father, also the impoverished order's chief fund raiser. She was a shrewd manager of the convent's money and kept an eye on her father's house and vineyard. One busy...
HIGH YIELD, HIGH GROUND The mutual-fund group Pax World has opened the first widely available High Yield Fund that invests only in socially responsible companies. That excludes firms that profit from firearms or tobacco. Although junk-bond funds in general have had a tough year, white-hat investing is gaining fans. Nationwide, dollars going into all socially responsible funds have risen 82% since 1997, to $2 trillion...