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...party with a lot to celebrate. At the end of July, it closed the books on the biggest fund-raising month in its history--nearly $38 million in just 31 days. Cash is the Ecstasy of politics. On Tuesday afternoon, just a day after Colin Powell took the podium to blast "affirmative action for lobbyists," giddy Republican fund raisers met at the Westin Hotel to marvel at the cash flow as it gusted through the party ledgers. "This is unbelievable," one exulted. "We've never had a year like this...
...Smith has served as executive producer for Democratic conventions since 1988, when he began renting out his considerable showbiz expertise to a tradition that was, even then, wearing thin. That was the year he updated the look of the convention with an imposing wall of video screens behind the podium. In 1996 he recruited Christopher Reeve for one of the campaign season's loveliest moments. In the year 2000, he's identified the basic problem. "You're taking four days to do what could be done in one," he says...
...Tuesday afternoon, except for six plain-clothes police officers and a podium, the protest pit was empty. One speaker, Cole H. Kleitsch of the Walking Civics group, knelt off to one side and gathered his belongings after he had finished his time at the podium. He warned the audience of six police about the evils of political parties taking quotes from George Washington's 1796 farewell address, in which Washington spoke of the same theme...
...butterflies, others as Frankenstein's monster. Signs reading HELL NO, WE WON'T GROW IT! People in white biohazard jumpsuits pitching Campbell's soup and Kellogg's cornflakes into a mock toxic-waste bin. The crowd shouting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho--GMO has got to go!" And, at the podium, Jesse Cool, a popular restaurant owner, wondering what would happen if she served a tomato spliced with an oyster gene and a customer got sick. "I could get sued," she says...
...American, Israeli and Palestinian officials. Except for a carefully orchestrated - and tightly controlled - photo op on Day 1, all the reporters have been kept off the secluded grounds of Camp David. Most are eight miles away at the Thurmont Elementary School, where White House spokesman Joe Lockhart takes the podium once or twice a day to release no information of substance, except that everyone's working hard and peace is difficult. His most recent appearance included this Delphic pronouncement: "It means something to us, but I'm not going to get into what it means...