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When Wasps thought of their duties as members of a group, the group they thought of was society as a whole. Families, social classes and their subunits took a backseat. Being realists, Wasps recognized that narrower loyalties existed, and James Madison built a constitutional theory on the balancing of "factions." But Wasps always viewed particularism with a certain distaste. Vendettas and blood feuds were considered the marks of yokels, while "special interest" has long been a political term of abuse...
...more and more companies are recruiting ad agencies that specialize in ethnic marketing. San Francisco's Time Advertising, which is owned by Chinese Americans, did spots for AT&T. Chicago-based Burrell Communications, a black shop, handles McDonald's and Coca-Cola, among other accounts. Many of the big Madison Avenue firms have either acquired or started up ethnic-oriented divisions. Young & Rubicam owns the Bravo Group, a Hispanic-market specialist. Foote Cone & Belding, Leo Burnett and Grey Advertising also have in-house Hispanic departments...
...this happened, an unassuming David Murray made a quiet late entrance. Ambling up to the stage, he looked a little tired. He explained he'd been performing until late the previous night at Madison Square Garden with none other than the Jerry Garcia Band. But within a few minutes Murray had assembled his saxophone and begun to lead the musicians away. The two men led the group through various exercises, including Fox's compositions, the Thelonious Monk ballad " `Round Midnight, " and the Charlie Parker blues "Billie's Bounce." There was plenty of advice for the student musicians, sometimes technical...
...staffers for Senator William Fulbright. In 1978 Bill and Hillary joined McDougal and his wife Susan in a real estate venture. A year later, Clinton became Governor and appointed McDougal his economic-development adviser. By the early 1980s, McDougal had left government work to make his fortune: he converted Madison Guaranty, a tiny institution, into one of the largest savings and loan associations in the state. But in 1989 federal regulators found the thrift to be nearly insolvent and shut it down. The following year McDougal was acquitted on charges of bank fraud. Now he's under investigation again...
Last month federal regulators asked the Justice Department to investigate whether funds from Madison were illegally diverted during the mid-1980s to real estate companies and politicians, including Clinton. According to government officials, $12,000 may have ended up in Governor Clinton's campaign coffers. Some of it may also have been illegally funneled by McDougal into a real estate venture called Whitewater Development, which he and his wife owned with the Clintons. Another, peripheral issue: payments to Hillary Clinton when she represented Madison Guaranty in its bid to resist closure by state thrift regulators while Bill Clinton was Governor...