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...biggest cash donors, Ernest and Julio Gallo. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Gallos, who own the biggest wine-making company in the country, are Dole's largest financial backers, having given more than $1 million over the years. But that is a modest investment compared with the $80 million that the Gallos were able to shelter thanks to Dole. In a House-Senate conference during the summer of 1986, he was instrumental in securing victory for the "Gallo amendment," which allowed grandparents with the wherewithal to give each grandchild $2 million free from the generation-skipping...
...five years, the CIA has been running a modest mission to bind diverse factions of Kurdish and Iraqi dissidents into an opposition against Saddam Hussein. With Baghdad's re-entry into northern Iraq, that mission was obliterated. "Saddam has knocked out many of America's eyes and ears, and your good name was tarnished," says Professor Amatzia Baram of Israel's Haifa University, a leading Iraq expert. "U.S. credibility and reputation for protecting its friends has suffered a terrible blow." Even as the U.S. deploys F-117 Stealth fighter-bombers to temper Saddam's erratic outbursts, the CIA must rebuild...
...fancy lunches, preferring to grab a plate in the commissary line downstairs. Intensely private, both have families (Carsey is married to a former comedy writer and has two children; Werner and his businesswoman wife have three) that they keep out of the limelight. Carsey drives a modest Mustang convertible; Werner tools around in a Toyota Landcruiser. Carsey doesn't even have an answering machine on her home phone. They are so low-profile that even Daily Variety not long ago referred to them, mistakenly, as husband and wife...
...were expressions of one capacious ego. The issue for him was not selling out but finding a buyer. And Hollywood, ever desperate for performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person of actual charm and talent...
Penet.fi needs no translation for most of the people on that newsgroup. The name is shorthand for an E-mail address--anon.penet.fi--where a garden-variety 486-chipped PC lived for nearly four years. This modest machine performed a lofty task: it allowed people effortlessly to send and receive E-mail or post messages to newsgroups, anonymously...