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What followed was the epitome of small-town activism. First came the NOBODY OWNS KATONAH T shirts and the Marthometer, a parody newspaper handed out at the commuter-train station. By summer, a fund raiser to cover legal bills had been put together; local musician Marc Black sang about Chief Katonah, the town's Native American namesake, as members of the Ramapough Lenape Indian nation, who had been enlisted to share in the outrage, looked on. Two recent high school grads took to the Internet with another protest song ("You're a craftsman who can make a vase...
...bungled police reports about the suspects' AIDS status has helped spread the controversy all the way to Hollywood. Sharon Stone is preparing to host a major fund-raiser in Dubai on December 10 for the Foundation for AIDS Research, or amfAR, for which she heads global fund-raising. The event will be part of the Dubai International Film Festival, and Stone's trip to Dubai has garnered major coverage in Dubai's Gulf News daily. On Friday evening, as TIME met Véronique Robert in a Paris café, amfAR's organizers in Manhattan called her to express concern...
Last June, Hillary Clinton's campaign gave back $7,000 to Chinese restaurant workers who contributed $1,000 apiece for a political fund-raiser. It was her campaign's effort to stop a common campaign-finance abuse: the use of proxies by well-heeled donors trying to get around the $1,000 limit on campaign contributions. But however well intentioned, the effort points up the difficulty all of the presidential campaigns have in trying to police their political contributions...
...best efforts" to fill in missing information. Yet what they do with the data - or a contributor who fails to produce it - is left to their discretion. The Clinton camp did more than it was required to when it refunded a handful of contributions from its $380,000 fund-raiser in April. But the criteria for which contributions were returned and which were kept remains somewhat mysterious. Why did the Clinton campaign, for example, send back a check to Liu Zeng, but not to Lee Sang Cheung, who each gave $1,000 to the campaign and fit the same demographic...
Democrat Eric Massa happened to be in Washington last week for a fund-raiser for his bid to challenge Rep. Randy Kuhl (pronounced "cool"), a Republican from upstate New York, for his seat next year, and he couldn't believe his good fortune. As his potential opponent voted against the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Plans (SCHIP), Massa felt like he was watching Kuhl commit "political suicide" for all to see on C-SPAN...