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...Polk is a CNN senior producer. Candiotti is a correspondent on CNN's bombing-trial team. Impact airs Sundays...
...potential donors; and this week's lead story about the growing scandal over foreign donations to the Democratic Party. It's all in a month's work for Weisskopf, who in 19 years at the Washington Post garnered a fistful of journalism honors, including Pulitzer nominations and a George Polk Award. He was well prepared to follow the Asian money trail with the fluent Mandarin he perfected in two tours in Beijing--from 1980 to 1985, and again in 1989 to cover the Tiananmen uprising...
...national parks. By his own admission, George Washington was personally responsible for the deforestation of cherry trees. Bill Clinton reduced crime on our streets; Thomas Jefferson's Vice President shot a guy! Bill Clinton has signed more nuclear disarmament than James Madison, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk combined...
...vows to fight cuts in Social Security and Medicare. And he offers a more liberal perspective on social issues than Charles: Mike is pro-choice and says the people of the district are willing to spend more on the environment, citing a 1994 referendum in which the people of Polk County voted to raise property taxes to buy $20 million worth of "environmentally sensitive" land...
BORN: Nov. 23, 1947, Oklahoma City, Okla. EDUCATION: Polk Junior College, A.A., 1968; U of Florida, B.S., 1971 FAMILY: Wife, Beverly Chandler; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Management consultant; small-business owner POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 1617 Fannin, Ninth Floor, Houston...