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Student organizers face the challenge of building a grass-roots campaign, especially one for an academic issue centered around race...
...ball bounced when it hit the grass in left. And then it bounced again—over the wall for a ground-rule double. Mager, already practically home, was stranded on third as the Crimson had second and third with two outs...
Engel's trial, expected to begin in May or June, comes at a time when new attention has been focused on the war years by a book, Crab Walk, by Nobel-prizewinning author Günter Grass. The work deals with the 1945 sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff by a Russian submarine as it steamed from Danzig (present day Gdansk, Poland) back to Germany. More than 7,000 passengers, mostly German women and children, drowned in the incident. The book, which tops best-seller lists in Germany, has sold more than 300,000 copies and has inspired front-page...
...corporations from excessively bashing those candidates who oppose their interests. But these restrictions do not apply to the media—and since incumbents have much more access to the media than challengers, this provision of the bill unduly favors those in office while stifling the efforts of grass roots campaigns...
...direction. In attempting to regulate the flow of money into political campaigns, it will strengthen the ability of corporations, unions, and special interest groups to influence the political process while decreasing the clout of the average citizen. On top of that, it will favor incumbents at the expense of grass roots campaigns. These effects are the exact opposites of the goals of campaign finance legislation and, sadly, losses for democracy and the democratic process...