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...that cash from all those lawsuits is probably the only thing that could have brought together the unusual political coalition of consumer advocates, Silicon Valley executives and conservative political operatives that calls itself the Alliance to Revitalize California. The group, formed last January, includes Michael Johnson, a onetime Nader's Raider; Bill Zimmerman, a former campaign director for liberal state senator Tom Hayden; Tom Proulx, the co-founder of the software company Intuit Inc.; and Ken Khachigian, a prominent adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As Khachigian says, "If you told me I'd be working with Zimmerman someday...
...forces freely admit that theirs is a coalition of convenience. "Our primary goal is no-fault auto insurance," says Johnson, but he defends the other propositions as well--never mind that the stockholders' initiative is sometimes called "the swindlers' protection act,'' or that Ralph Nader himself is on the No side...
...these reasons, many consumer and health groups--including the American Public Health Association, the National Women's Health Network, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Ralph Nader's Center for Science in the Public Interest have come out against approval. Despite scores of clinical trials in animals and humans and hundreds of thousands of pages of studies, they argue that no one can be certain that olestra won't be a danger to public health. Besides, says Michael Jacobson, cspi's executive director, "we don't need olestra potato chips. It's crazy to add a substance to the food...
Kessler's critics are not impressed. They say that by focusing on the 17% of new drugs that are targeted for deadly diseases, the FDA has stalled the other 83%. "They're terrified of Nader and the left wing," says Senator Hatch, who parted ways with Kessler after a fight over regulating the vitamin industry, which is well established in Utah. "They want zero risk, and there's no way for there to be zero risk in anything." Representative Bliley, a tobacco-industry ally, goes further. The FDA's true mission, he has said, should be "to bring safe drugs...
...with Tarilc While he was appealing (mostly for lack of any positive male characters), his mood changes and facial expressions were awkward as well as unexplained. Santiago Tapia delivered Samir's lines unsure of appropriate emphasis. He did not seem comfortable moving around the stage. As the purely evil Nader, Andrew Pitcher was more believable, but he also could not stand still...