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Republicans may talk about political reform, but behind the scenes last week it was business as usual for the G.O.P. The day after Newt Gingrich took over as Speaker of the House, top fund raisers, working phones on Capitol Hill, attracted $5 million in pledges for a February gala -- a remarkable total for a party not in control of the White House. Businesses are snapping up the $15,000 tables at the gala, organized by cosmetics mogul GEORGETTE MOSBACHER. "Newt's got a message," says a fund raiser, "that corporate America loves...
...hoist a 3,400-sq.-ft. sail is rare in females? Or the male clubbiness that excluded women even from the more cerebral positions of navigator and tactician? When the all-female team was announced, says Linda Lindquist, 32, who doubles as a sail-hoisting pitman and fund raiser, "men asked me, 'What happens when you are all at the same time of the month...
...through by the willpower of a single personality. Unlike John XXIII, who had led a sheltered life in seminaries and nunciatures, John Paul was a man of the world who had suffered under Nazism and communism. He was a philosopher, poet and dramatist, but also a very experienced fund raiser and administrator. His pastoral experience was determinative. In Poland he had founded and run perhaps the most successful marriage institute in Christianity, set up to deal with the problems of marital discord, family planning, illegitimacy and venereal disease, alcoholism, wife beating and child abuse...
...Duran sprayed the White House with bullets on October 29 he may have been taking aim at a gray-haired, red-faced man on the grounds who, from a distance resembles President Clinton, law enforcement officials told the Associated Press today. The presence of Dennis Basso, 40 -- a fund-raiser for Hugh Rodham's ill-fated Florida Senate campaign -- is one of the reasons prosecutors are charging Duran with assassination, the official said, instead of treating the incident as the work of a madman. Duran's lawyer has maintained that "the 27 rounds were fired toward a building...
Carnesale was also the savior of the Kennedy School, the dean who brought together a faculty fractured by years of mushrooming growth and lacking of a clear mission. He was a Harvard insider, a successful fund raiser and a tested supporter of Rudenstine's goal of unifying Harvard's schools...