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...avoid a repeat of the last time it made the playoffs. In 2005, Harvard laid an egg in its regular season finale, posting a 0.000 hitting percentage in a drubbing by St. Francis. The sorrows followed in its playoff opener, when it fell 3-0 to top-seeded Penn State, ranked third nationally at the time...
...Clinton, the challenge of raising money to pay off those last bills is made all the more difficult by the fact that the only creditor she has left is the firm of Mark Penn, the controversial political consultant who came up with her widely panned pseudo-incumbency campaign strategy. In an election year when voters were looking for freshness and change, that may have been the biggest of all the mistakes Clinton made. A quarterly filing that Clinton's campaign made late Wednesday with the FEC showed that it remains $2,307,740.82 in debt to Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates...
...surprisingly, many Clinton allies are decidedly unsympathetic to Penn's situation. Fumes one: "He should have to eat it." But it isn't that simple. The money is owed not to Penn personally but to his company, which is a subsidiary of the worldwide public relations and advertising firm WPP Group, based in London. The bills the Clinton campaign ran up included $5 million for the polling that apparently failed to pick up on the public mood. And then there was the cost of sending out 20 million pieces of direct mail, with postage alone reaching $8 million, according...
...bills remain. "They're not paying Mark Penn; they're paying the shareholders of WPP," says WPP executive vice president Howard Paster, who ran the Office of Legislative Affairs in Bill Clinton's White House. And as long as Hillary Clinton continues to show an ability to pay them off, the firm does not have the option of simply forgiving the debt, Paster insists. If it did, its lawyers say, that could be an illegal in-kind contribution under federal election...
...also cut her debt to Penn, Schoen & Berland - which stood at close to $5.4 million at the end of last year - by more than half. At some point, though, what's left of the Clinton campaign operation may, in Paster's words, "hit a wall." At that time, the law allows her to seek the FEC's permission to renegotiate the terms of her indebtedness to the company. But that's a conversation for another day, Paster says, adding, "For now, we expect to be paid...