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...take Alberta out of the equation, there's very little growth in Canada," says Stelmach, whose Progressive Conservative Party has a cozy relationship with Big Oil. But Stelmach's critics are getting louder as concerns mount over outsize greenhouse-gas emissions from the oil sands. At a recent fund-raising dinner in Edmonton for his party faithful, two Greenpeace activists rappelled from the ceiling of a hall, unveiling a banner that read $TELMACH: THE BEST PREMIER OIL MONEY CAN BUY. It was Greenpeace's typically great political theater, but Stelmach won't entertain any cries for a moratorium...
Because planning for many of this year's weddings started long before gas and milk hit $4 a gallon, some couples have had to scale back. "Every dollar counts," says Tammy Li, whose parents are helping fund her Aug. 30 wedding at the Madison Hotel in Morristown, N.J., as they struggle to sell their house. Li and fiancé Bernie Tang are tamping down costs simply by being flexible with the time. "I had really wanted a night wedding," says Li, but it was hard to argue with the $15,000 savings they'll get by holding it on Saturday afternoon...
...race for horse-racing, Iavarone and his partners arranged to buy control of Big Brown for $2.5 million in September, after watching him race once--once--on TV. "We put our balls on the line," he says proudly. The brash owner is even starting a horse hedge fund, allowing private investors to buy into his portfolio of Thoroughbreds and sell out at a handsome profit if they succeed. Or lose it all. "My confidence is sky-high right now," he says...
Lobbyists, The Presidential candidates tell us, have become so powerful that they are destroying our democracy. This, of course, makes me want to become a lobbyist. As it turns out, the Afterschool Alliance, which asks the government to fund children's programs, invited me into its Leadership Circle. So I recently joined more than 500 program administrators, educators and policymakers from around the country to walk the halls of Congress and ask Representatives and Senators not to pass the cuts to the No Child Left Behind Act that President George W. Bush has proposed. Not knowing precisely how lobbying worked...
...advisers are current or former influence peddlers. The issue remained mostly a distraction until early May, when McCain parted ways with two aides whose firm once lobbied for the Burmese military junta, a regime he condemns. Now the lobbyist issue is roiling McCainLand, prompting more departures--including top fund raiser and former Representative Thomas Loeffler--and a strict conflict-of-interest policy. The sudden house-cleaning has raised an awkward question: Why is McCain seemingly drawn to people from the world's second-oldest profession? (Campaign manager Rick Davis and top strategist Charlie Black are both former lobbyists.) Some suggest...