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Giuliani is a Yankee fan, and makes the issue of whether the team moves to New Jersey central to his politics. He is symbolic of the link between sports and politics in New York much more so than someone like Ed Koch, for whom the extent of their mayoral duty vis-a-vis sports was a guest appearance in the first inning of the annual Yankees-Mets Mayor's Trophy game...
...money wins," conceded President Clinton on the fund-raising trail. That means the GOP ? and though it's traditional for Democrats to be outspent, the margin this year was huge. The RNC plowed millions of dollars in soft (and extremely quiet) money into the big races: governorships in New Jersey and Virginia; a House seat in Staten Island...
...last weeks of the '96 race, Americans for Tax Reform, a nonprofit group headed by Grover Norquist, paid for a campaign burnishing the Republican image on the Medicare issue as well as an ad attacking New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Torricelli. About the same time, Norquist's group received $4.6 million from the G.O.P. Norquist and party officials have denied coordinating their efforts. But bank records reviewed by TIME show that four days after a $2 million G.O.P. infusion, Americans for Tax Reform paid $280,000 to buy time for the anti-Torricelli ad, an expense the group could...
After receiving the jersey, Jiang shook hands with visitors as he was quickly led out into a car. He then visited the University of Pennsylvania
Whatever Jiang does in America will inevitably be compared to Deng's trip in 1979, when Deng was also trying to establish himself. Deng's defining moment was his donning of a 10-gallon hat in Texas. Could holding the Philadelphia Flyers' jersey with his name on the back be Jiang's moment...