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...midlevel Commerce job proved to be far from the center of power. So Giroir helped Huang get into campaign finance, the cockpit of politics. Last week's hearing portrayed Huang's patron as relentlessly promoting him in repeated visits and calls to party officials and at an Oval Office meeting with Clinton and Riady. It worked: Huang became deputy party finance chairman in December 1995 and raised $3.4 million. About $1.6 million had to be returned after the party decided the money could have come from abroad...
...even have an e-mail account to call my own. I am a temporary patron for the summer on my mother's Compuserve account, shut off from the academic world without an ".edu" to my name...
Fortunately, Capra, over at Columbia, found in Stewart "the uncommon common man": as a lion tamer of the wild Vanderhof clan in You Can't Take It with You and as Jefferson Smith, patron saint of patriotic lost causes, nurser of noble grudges, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. David O. Selznick saw Stewart as a worthy partner for Carole Lombard in the intelligent soaper Made for Each Other. Somebody at Universal made him the unlikely western hero of Destry Rides Again, opposite an amused Marlene Dietrich. These moguls may have undervalued Stewart as an appealing young actor who wouldn...
Effective June 11, the loan period for general circulation items at Lamont will increase from 14 to 28 days, according to Martin E. Hollick, reference librarian for Widener and Lamont libraries. If recalled by another patron, books will be able to be called due after being out for only 14 days, he said...
...patron of University-sponsored child care, Hasselman said he plans to push for a FAS-run day care facility...