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...brought in $100,000. Instead of disbanding the group after Bush won, Oliver nurtured it. After victories by Ronald Reagan and the first Bush, "we left people alone for a couple of years," says a G.O.P. lobbyist, who noted that Oliver "made people feel they were part of a network that never ended." If your kid needed a photo with the President, Oliver made it happen. He kept in touch with fund raisers by conference call and e-mail and rallied them for the midterm election, writing gracious thank-you notes in his trademark blue felt-tip pen. After Congress...
...network has done surprisingly well in midsize cities, usually relegated to the minor league of campaign finance. Just as the NFL discovered it could profitably run football teams in smaller markets, Oliver and his colleagues realized that these towns were ripe with donors who would pay big money even for presidential surrogates. Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker was concerned last month about the Laura Bush fund raiser he was host to, as luncheons sometimes don't do well. No matter. The event hauled in $500,000, double Chattanooga's previous political fund-raising best. "I've never been involved in anything...
CATHARINE RAY: A WINTRY LOVE They first meet around Christmastime 1754 while he is inspecting New England's postal network. He is 48 and at the peak of his scientific glory; she is 23, vivacious, opinionated and uninhibited. Basking in his attentions on a visit to Boston from her home on Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, Catharine Ray chatters away. She makes him sugar plums, which he pronounces better than any he has ever tasted. A few days later, they set off for Rhode Island. It is a wintry journey marked by "a wrong road and a soaking...
...accused are in jail awaiting trial, a senior Thai intelligence source says the danger has not passed. An unidentified Thai believed to have planned the attacks remains at large and may still be able to carry them out. "We busted one cell but we know there is a JI network still in operation in Thailand," the intelligence official says. "We think they still have the ability to cause damage." The intelligence agency knows the identity of the mastermind and has him under surveillance. But no arrest has been made because authorities are still gathering evidence. Officials are worried that...
...benefits of competition in the passenger sector are murkier. The British experience has been horrendous. Britain completed the privatization of its rail system in 1997, breaking the formerly integrated network known as British Rail into more than 100 different firms. At the center was Railtrack, which had the task of maintaining the tracks, signals and stations. It contracted out the work, resulting in spiraling costs and a record of erratic maintenance that had fatal consequences, including a 1999 collision between two trains outside Paddington Station in London that killed 31 people. Criticism of the safety record was heightened...