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...said something I didn't say. Now shove it." TERESA HEINZ KERRY, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry, to journalist Colin McNickle at the Massachusetts statehouse. McNickle had pressed Heinz Kerry on her use of the term "un-American" when she spoke to a group of convention delegates...
...downstairs so we wouldn't have a completely dry day." Kerry had to make one last big decision--whether to take out a $6.4 million loan on his Boston home, which represented most of his personal fortune, to finance the campaign. His wife may be heir to the Heinz-family fortune, but campaign-finance laws prevent her giving to his campaign more than a $2,000 donation. By law, Kerry could lend himself only his, rather small, share of their joint assets. If he lost and couldn't repay the loan on his home, he would be far more dependent...
...noticing the interruption, Heinz Kerry continued, lauding all “the women of this world, whose wise voices for much too long have been excluded and discounted.” She told the audience that it was “time for the world to hear women’s voices, in full and at last...
Certainly, the days of gavel-to-gavel coverage of the convention by television media are gone, reduced to a mere three hours. Heinz Kerry’s speech didn’t even make it onto prime time. And while the television networks opting to cut back convention coverage in favor of airing more “American Idol” episodes might fare better in terms of viewer numbers, they too are depriving Americans of an opportunity...
...answer, apparently, was to pack in as many different sides of the party as could be fit, all tamed to fit the DNC stage. A calmly intense Teresa Heinz Kerry, the former candidates (Gephardt and Mosely-Braun in addition to Dean), Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Reagan, a young star of “The O.C.” (?!), the younger (13 years old) founder of Kids for Kerry, an enthusiastic group of dancers—all came on and went off, charging the crowd admirably at times but leaving little lasting impression...