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...Checchi can waste his money attacking me," she told the camera in one commercial. "I'll spend my time on real problems." It might have worked--if she had been ready with a coherent plan for the state. But she wasn't. A former political aide, lawyer and lobbyist, Harman has spent most of her adult life in Washington. She entered the race late because she saw an opening after Feinstein decided not to run, but wasn't up to speed on the issues and spent months offering little more than platitudes. She was for better schools (the hot topic...
...tend to work within our delegation and ouralumni," says Nan Nixon, Harvard's full-timeWashington lobbyist. "For the reason that allpolitics is local...
...goal is legislative action, then welook to a coalition," says Jane H. Corlette, aCambridge-based Harvard lobbyist...
According to Nan Wells, Princeton's chiefWashington lobbyist, on issues of studentassistance, research funding and tax policy, thehigher education community looks to Harvard forleadership...
...looking into the exorbitant commissions paid by Elf in conjunction with the $2.7 billion sale of six French frigates to Taiwan in 1991. Elf, then state owned, had no official involvement in the sale of the vessels. But an investigation into complaints of unjustified commissions soon led to Elf lobbyist Deviers-Joncour, who admitted that the oil company had paid her some $10 million to promote the sale. Her mission was to persuade Dumas to reverse his opposition to the deal. But, she said, she was unsuccessful...