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Lemkin, a haunted refugee and relentless lobbyist, managed to construct a lasting norm, as Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary granted his coinage lexicographic admission. In 1948 he went door to door at the new United Nations and persuaded representatives to endorse the Genocide Convention, the U.N.'s first human rights treaty, which committed signatories to "undertake to prevent and to punish" the monstrous horror...
...Swift & Co., Cargill and National Beef Packing Co.--that control 81% of the nation's cattle market. They argue that foreign governments could retaliate for any labeling law by blocking American produce. "We do not need to jeopardize our access to foreign markets by adopting such protectionist policies," Tyson lobbyist Sara Lilygren recently e-mailed Senate staff members...
...style is to be a diplomat, not a bomb thrower." DAN GLICKMAN, onetime Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture, just named to succeed Jack Valenti as chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America...
...stop, Hollywood: Dan Glickman, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), was named the next chair of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) yesterday, ending a months-long search to replace 82-year-old Jack Valenti as the film industry’s chief lobbyist...
...five Multnomah County commissioners, four had been B.R.O. allies over the years--women who had supported a B.R.O. anti-discrimination ordinance, come to B.R.O. galas and luncheons and, in the case of commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey, accepted a B.R.O. civil rights award. When Thorpe and her lobbyist Maura Roche arrived at the county building on Jan. 27 for their first meetings on marriage--meetings so secret that Thorpe and Roche hadn't even told the commissioners why they were coming--the first two commissioners with whom they met asked, "Are we in trouble...