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Although the effort began as a grass roots attempt to educate policy makers, the national media quickly made stem cell research into a nationally debated topic...
...disgruntled citizens of Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden swore their nation's founding oath of confederation in 1291, Switzerland has reveled in remaining an Alpine stronghold, happily cut off from political and economic turmoil in the world's lower realms. Fear of weakening the country's vaunted neutrality, independence and grass-roots democracy has kept Switzerland out of nato, the European Union and almost every other political alliance dreamed up by the world's multilateralists. That could change this weekend, when voters decide whether the country should finally join an organization it has hosted for 55 years: the United Nations...
...just thought of music and school as things that I’d go back and forth between. I never saw either one of them really taking off or taking over my life.” Still, no matter which side of the proverbial fence he lands on, the grass is always greener on the other...
...under the new regulations, which also ban sham "issue" ads being broadcast on TV or radio just before an election, whose real purpose is to attack a candidate. But the bill allows corporations, labor unions and especially special interest groups to pump practically all the money they want into grass-roots activities, such as get-out-the-vote drives or direct mail. So grass-roots organizers, not TV ad bookers, could be in hot demand...
...name on Lay's White House list was that of Nora Brownell, a Pennsylvania utility regulator. Enron discovered her in 1997 when it was trying to break into the lucrative Pennsylvania electricity market. (That year Bush adviser Karl Rove recommended that Enron hire political strategist Ralph Reed to build grass-roots support in the state.) Lay also jumped into the Pennsylvania fray, urging Bush to call his friend Governor Tom Ridge on behalf of Enron. "I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on," Lay explained to the New York Times. "And I said that...