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DEBBIE STABENOW Democrat--Michigan 8th In one of the costliest races in the nation, Stabenow received generous support from the afl-cio, which ran television ads slamming G.O.P. incumbent Dick Chrysler...
Schmidt, on the other hand, knows his position: a 60-year-old retiree who must face changing circumstances. Unplugged from a regular and generous income, he must cope with a reduced cash flow by giving up his Fifth Avenue apartment to live full time in Bridgehampton. He must also cope with his daughter Charlotte, a public relations executive who dissembles for tobacco companies and is engaged to Jon Riker, Schmidt's former protege at the firm of Wood & King...
...good news may be that this is all the gay bashers have left. Recognition of a near marriage equivalent--domestic partnerships--is now official at more than 450 U.S. corporations. Even the Coors Brewing Co.--long associated with a right-wing, antigay agenda thanks to Coors family members' generous support of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation--began offering gay partners the same benefits as spouses in 1995. Coors had previously been the target of boycotts by gay-rights groups, but claims it changed its policy simply because, in the words of spokesman Joe Fuentes, "Peter Coors [Joseph...
Harvard's alumni are also apparently less generous than Princeton's, coming in fourth to Princeton's first. At least Yale didn't beat us on that one. But in the midst of a $2.1 billion capital campaign, one would hope that Harvard alumni could catch...
...canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively gave his new jacket to a derelict in a Montparnasse bar--who tried to relieve the suffering of others because he felt his own so deeply...