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...trip came at a critical moment. Congress was considering legislation (which died a month after the trip) that might have shut down Internet gambling--and jeopardized the livelihoods of some of Abramoff's biggest clients. Two of them--a Choctaw Indian tribe and the Internet gambling company eLottery Inc.--each wrote a check for $25,000 on May 25, 2000, the day DeLay departed, to the sponsor of the trip, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative nonprofit foundation on whose board Abramoff sat. Those checks would cover most of the cost of the $70,000 junket. Sponsorship...
...enormous potential of our racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. Creating a climate in which each of us is truly comfortable with difference is not an easy task. It requires training and commitment to treat multiethnicity as the essence of our country. Burt E. Schuman, Executive Director Panel of Americans, Inc. New York City Dipping Snuff and Chewing Tobacco...
Having shrugged off a major operation for colon cancer, Ronald Reagan seems to have earned a new wave of public sympathy and support through his patented optimism. In a survey conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc. during the week the President returned to work, Reagan's popularity reached an all-time high.[*] When asked to rate his performance on a l-to-10 scale, 67% put him in the top half, up 6% from May and 17% from his lowest rating, in the summer...
...eviction notice by the co-op board in the building where he practiced. "I treated people with AIDS," he explained. "People in the building didn't like AIDS patients walking through the lobby." In New Orleans, Johnny Greene, a writer, was fired from an editing job with McDermott International Inc. after writing an article for PEOPLE magazine about his own suspected case of AIDS. "They just walked in and said, 'Get the hell out,' " he recalls. "I hope they were acting out of panic or confusion, not belligerence or homophobia...
Neuharth's faith in USA Today can be seen in the redesign of Family Weekly, the Sunday newspaper supplement that Gannett bought from CBS Inc. in March for $42 million. At the time of the sale, Family Weekly had 362 newspaper clients and a combined circulation of more than 12 million. Renamed USA Weekend and scheduled to debut in September, the revamped magazine is a close cousin of the newspaper, complete with the same logo and flashy graphics. Many of Family Weekly's longtime subscribers, however, have complained that the new look amounts to free promotion for USA Today...