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Even The Lobby is under siege. A cascade of anti-AIPAC scholarship has chronicled the alleged power of pro-Israeli special interests to pervert the American national interest. Political action committees in general are under attack by politicians from both parties (AIPAC is not a PAC, but it controls an impressive array of PACs). And while The Lobby has always found its most receptive audience in Congress, the legislative branch's ability and willingness to influence American foreign policy is in rapid decline. Congress may still be browbeaten into large aid packages, but an executive branch less susceptible to AIPAC...
Meanwhile, the 2-9 Crimson was aching to get back to the friendly confines of Briggs Cage, of Cambridge, of the East. No more cherry coke at the press table. No more cotton candy hawkers in the stands. No more song-and-dance troupes behind the basket. And no PAC-10 teams on the other side of the scorers table...
...figures "alarming" and speculates that some blacks shared antitax sentiments with many middle-class whites. As both a black Democrat and a fiscal conservative, Wilder believes he is well positioned to lure the defecting voters back. That may explain why his political adviser, Paul Goldman, has registered a new PAC with the Federal Election Commission that can easily evolve into a fund-raising vehicle for a ^ Wilder presidential campaign. While that nomination strikes political insiders as most unlikely, speculation about a Veep candidacy is turning serious...
Here, I thought the blue squares on the sidewalks represented a gigantic game of Pac Man. I was understandably quite relieved to learn such things. Apparently, I am really learning something at Harvard...
...more surprising victory was scored in Minnesota by Carleton College political science professor and veteran community organizer Paul Wellstone over Republican incumbent Senator Rudy Boschwitz. The only candidate to unseat a Senator, Wellstone made the rejection of special-interest politics--as exemplified by Boschwitz's PAC money-lined campaign coffers--a major theme of his campaign...