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...corner," says Martinez, chairman of the foundation, which still gets a trickle of contributions at 23 Main Street, Winters, Calif. 95694 WBDavis@Davis.com) "Dr. Davis and his wife Wendy [the currently unpaid executive director of the clinic] have put it on the line for us, and we have to all pitch in and fight for them...
...almost hear the pitch for Fisher's screenplay, currently in production and now fleshed out in his memoir: Dickens in Cleveland! The Color Purple, but true and male and set in the 1960s! The facts of his life have a movie-of-the-week ring: relentlessly abusive foster care; redemption through military service; and irrepressible intellect. But detailed accounting distinguishes the tale, and Fisher's searing, luminous portrait of his childhood transcends the familiar, as does his retroactive (and likely hard-won) tenderness toward the boy no one else loved...
...Because it's the size that makes the sales pitch. Tuesday night is when Bush is going to try to pull a Reagan on a country and a Congress that may be surprised what his budget plan boils down to. Not compassion, exactly - that was Clinton's thing - but restraint. Restraining the growth of the federal government in time of surpluses. Make Washington eat its vegetables; let the people eat steak...
...pardon petition to the White House, Rich submitted many supportive letters from Israeli politicians, cultural figures and even former Mossad intelligence officials - a pitch reinforced by three calls from Barak. But the earlier Israeli offensive was not publicly known until the release of the 1997 memo...
...used in developing weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. appears to have recognized that the current comprehensive sanctions package is bound to collapse because both European and Arab allies generally view it as a counterproductive policy that has hurt the Iraqi people but not their dictator. Powell plans to pitch a new sanctions regime designed to lighten the burden on the Iraqi people while maintaining a tight grip on anything that would enhance Iraq?s military capability...