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Bush's war chest carries staggering implications for those other would-be Presidents who have been begging donors for money just to keep their campaign alive. "This is the political equivalent of bombing the supply lines," says John J. Pitney Jr., a political-science professor at Claremont McKenna College. "There's only so much political money out there, and every dollar that goes to [Bush] is a dollar that doesn't go anywhere else." Bush's money advantage is so great that his campaign advisers believe the only real threat they face comes from Steve Forbes, the self-financed tycoon...
...thing happened at fund raisers across the country, converting what had been a steady stream of donations into a raging river. When Bush announced last week that he had raked in $36.25 million, the news instantly transformed the 2000 campaign. He had not only outraised his nearest G.O.P. rival, John McCain, 9 to 1, but raised double the $18.2 million collected by Al Gore, the sitting Vice President and Democratic heir apparent. And Bush is just getting started. On Friday, a top adviser confidently told TIME that the campaign's new fund-raising goal is $70 million by January--meaning...
...Minister Lamberto Dini, for example, to place a phone call to the Vatican. The Serbian Orthodox Church last month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join in taking a crack at Milosevic...
...mend in the winter--but I've been to football and soccer and field hockey and try to stay informed via these pages, and I can't say I remember a Harvard-Cornell rivalry per se. It reminds me of the morning I woke up in the Yard to John Harvard painted green and the Dartmouth band shouting and dancing around it. It turns out, I was told by a Dartmouth student in a less ecstatic moment, that there was a "big" Harvard-Dartmouth rivalry and they were just doing their part...
...What caused me to write Harvard officials was [the site owner] got a year-book picture of my sister, who was 17 years old at the time, all sorts of suggestive, derogatory remarks about her and the address of my parents," said John Vranesvich, who ran the rival site, AntiOnline.com...