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...Sadat's policies. DIED. MARY KAY ASH, 83, founder of the cosmetics company Mary Kay Inc. and one of the most influential women in American business; in Dallas. Ash created an award system in which she gave deserving saleswomen pink Cadillacs. DIED. MARY WHITEHOUSE, 91, schoolteacher turned feisty antipornography lobbyist; in Colchester, England. Whitehouse created the Clean Up TV campaign in 1964?prompted by a bbc program depicting extramarital affairs?and the National Viewers and Listeners Association in 1965. DISBARRED. F. LEE BAILEY, 68, former defense attorney for O.J. Simpson and Patty Hearst, from the Florida bar; in Tallahassee. Bailey...
...mothers held sway. As late as 1971, the Minnesota State Bar Association's handbook advised lawyers and judges that "except in very rare cases, the father should not have custody of the minor children. He is usually unqualified psychologically and emotionally." When James Cook, a Los Angeles real estate lobbyist, divorced in 1974 and sought shared custody of his son, "the judge thought it was preposterous," he recalls. "He told me, 'I don't have permission...
...It’s gotta be sex plus,” he said. Bush has to be sleeping with either a lobbyist or someone who works for the president, otherwise “it’s not news. Who cares...
Federal funding is always an issue. Harvard’s representative and lobbyist in Washington, Kevin Casey, said that while President Bush’s proposed FY 2002 budget includes increases for biomedical research funding, it freezes levels for non-medical research...
...Partridge Family and in the Elvis Presley film Kissin' Cousins), then at politics (unsuccessful bids for Senate and House seats in California in 1982 and 1992) and at writing (a memoir, First Father, First Daughter, published in 1989). In 1981, she married her third husband Dennis Revell, a Sacramento lobbyist, and in 1994, adopted a daughter Rita, now 16, Ugandan by birth. In the 1990s, after her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and despite her own cancer, she began a relentless campaign to raise awareness and money for Alzheimer's research. Devoted to her father, she lived, she said...