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...grovel for contributions to finance ever more costly TV campaigns, then listen best to the wishes of those who give the most. Anticipating the claim that each of the five had merely taken proper steps to help a constituent, special counsel Robert Bennett declared, "These activities went beyond the norm of constituent service." In helping Keating, who awaits trial for defrauding investors in his defunct California-based Lincoln Savings & Loan and in its parent, American Continental Corp., the Senators, Bennett charged, had ignored the welfare of many more constituents -- including the taxpayers, who will spend some $2 billion because...
...Election Day, he made more than 100 stops for 63 candidates and helped raise about $80 million in campaign funds. The results were unimpressive. Struggling to put the best face on the outcome, a rather sheepish Bush insisted, "I'm told we did a little better than the norm, but that doesn't make me happy...
...must show," he said, "that honorable conduct is the norm...
...group formed in high school in the Long Island town of Cold Spring Harbor, the stomping grounds of Billy Joel. Though the band can't be the first rock success story from their hometown, they can be novel. Their determination to reject the music world norm of bands who create a false, flashy image for themselves is more impressive than their Ivy League background. They make no effort to conceal or distort their clean-cut image, an image which is a natural extension of the band's honest sound and sincere lyrics. And it is refreshing once in a while...
Kolko says he actually sees Feldstein for only one hour a week. One research assistant, Mark J. Schnitzer '92, says he is fortunate enough to have weekly seminars with his professor. But most acknowledge that this is not the norm...