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...calorie content of drinks sold in public high schools, while imposing even stricter limitations on drinks sold in public elementary and middle schools, allowing for the sale of only bottled water and low-fat milk and juice. We are heartened that the amendment, chiefly sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), has bipartisan support, likely a reflection of the public’s growing concern over our children’s preference for the abundance of readily available, sugary and salty food in our schools. According to a report released by the Government Accountability Office in 2005, 99 percent...
...candidates, had raised $20.5 million so far this year and had $7.1 million cash on hand, compared to the $36.7 million raised by Schumer and the $20.6 million still left in Democratic coffers. Democrats have even latched on to the 60-seat dream as a fundraising tool. Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, told supporters in a recent fundraising letter "the party is poised to gain the 60 seats necessary to stop Republican filibusters and bring our families and neighbors home from this...
...calling our men and women in uniform who oppose the war in Iraq, and I quote, ‘phony soldiers.’” Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) chimed in with “disgusting and an embarrassment,” and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) won for best performance with his line, “Maybe he was just high on his drugs again. I don’t know whether he was or not. If so, he ought to let us know… But that shouldn’t be an excuse...
Dems stump at Senator Tom Harkin's steak...
...earthquake that took the lives of 75,000 people and displaced 3 million more. One of Yuri's pictures was of a slight girl in a hooded orange parka who had lost her leg in the quake. Two days after the magazine appeared, TIME's news-desk supervisor, Eileen Harkin, got a call from a member of the Shriners organization in Los Angeles. It wanted to help the girl. With clues from Yuri's notebooks and the assistance of his contacts in several relief organizations, we located the girl, Insha Afsar, 7, in a camp in Kamsar, just north...