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...curtain-raiser to "A Mid-summer Night's Dream," the Boston Ballet performs a short dance entitled "Glazounov Classique," an elegant piece with several short solos. Each of the dancers give an excellent performance, but Adriana Suarez in particular stands out. As the lead female of the dance, she is an absolute wonder to behold. Her fluid style contrasts with her sharp, majestic movements to create a spellbinding performance...
...south, each candidate hopes to use a strong showing in South Carolina as a springboard to primaries in Georgia on March 5 and Florida on March 12. Dole spent much of Thursday's debate defending himself from charges by the others that he was a chronic tax raiser. Even as Alexander began to defend himself for a spot attacking Dole for supporting $320 billion in tax increases, Forbes rushed to pile on. "The ad is misleading," he said, and suggested that the actual number was closer to $1 trillion. "Don't malign my integrity here," Dole snapped after one particularly...
...dollars to specific projects and industries. And while House rules put a 12-month ban on Eppard's directly lobbying her boss of 22 years, she had free access to the rest of the committee and its staff. She kept her job as Shuster's chief Washington fund raiser, earning $3,000 a month for arranging receptions and speaking engagements. Among her new clients, which include Federal Express, Union Pacific and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, she found a wellspring of eager contributors...
...interested parties like Alan ("Ace") Greenberg, head of the prominent investment firm Bear Stearns, and Leonard Lauder of the Estee Lauder cosmetics family. More than 1,400 people attended, which meant about $1.2 million for the campaign treasury. It was a big night for Forbes, his most successful fund raiser...
...most successful what? To avoid becoming obligated to special interests, wasn't Forbes supposed to be financing his own campaign? Not quite. He's held at least one other sizable fund raiser so far. Half a dozen others are scheduled, and as many as 15 more are being planned. His campaign manager, Bill Dal Col, says Forbes is raising money to demonstrate that he has "a broad-based campaign." And by law his donors are limited to $1,000 a person, which is not the kind of money that makes a millionaire beholden to anybody...