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...cash from all those lawsuits is probably the only thing that could have brought together the unusual political coalition of consumer advocates, Silicon Valley executives and conservative political operatives that calls itself the Alliance to Revitalize California. The group, formed last January, includes Michael Johnson, a onetime Nader's Raider; Bill Zimmerman, a former campaign director for liberal state senator Tom Hayden; Tom Proulx, the co-founder of the software company Intuit Inc.; and Ken Khachigian, a prominent adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As Khachigian says, "If you told me I'd be working with Zimmerman someday...
...received death threats and at least once has posted armed guards at his house. He has faced off with Sam Donaldson. True, the attention can be a nuisance. Some viewers are intrigued by his 1993 tape inviting "experts" in various types of weaponry to join the militia-at-large Raider Company based in Dexter. Last September in the Michigan town of Fowlerville, three men claiming to be Koernke's "bodyguards" and "unorganized militia" members were arrested while transporting a .357 magnum revolver, three semiautomatic pistols, three loaded assault rifles (an AK-47, an M-1 and an M-14), three...
...Colgate, sophomore Mike Harder has expanded on his freshman success, providing 19 goals and 32 assists for 52 Red Raider points. Earl Cronin (18-19-37) and Ron Fogarty (15-21-36) helped the league's second-most potent offense, while another rookie goalie, Dan Brenzavich, has come up big at times. Whether he can hold up to the playoff grind or not is another question for the freshman to answer...
When TIME hired Joshua Quittner to write about information technology, we knew we were getting a savvy reporter. What we didn't realize was that we were also getting a corporate raider. For an article in Wired magazine late last year, Quittner found out that McDonald's was one of several big corporations that had not registered their company names as domain names on the Internet (those letters that follow the @ symbol, identifying the sender). After trying in vain to find a company executive who could tell him why, Quittner simply registered the McDonald's name for himself...
...quite like that in Hamilton, where the bleakness of the scenery--that bond which ties it to the other three rural hockey hotbeds of the Empire State--is matched only by the Red Raider fans' indifference. You have to generate your own energy to win at Colgate: the home crowd's eternal ennui won't help you along...