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...these days Yepsen looks out over the rolling fields greening in the spring sun and sees nothing. "Strangely quiet," he says. Last October, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen showed up and added his weight to a notably leaden fund raiser. A couple of months ago, Colorado's voluble Congresswoman Pat Schroeder came around for two eminently forgettable speeches at Drake and Iowa universities. Since then nary a candidate...
...Sultanate of Oman, a legendary home of Sinbad the Sailor and fabled source of frankincense for the Queen of Sheba. In this New Mexico-size nation, located on the cutting edge of the Arabian Peninsula, the dawn light- and-shadow show is a spectacular curtain raiser to a host of attractions + that have made it one of the world's newest and most unusual tourist destinations...
Last semester, the Harvard Sigma Alpha Mu chapter sponsored a bowl-a-thon to raise money for cerebral palsy research and held a fund-raiser for the poor in Roxbury, according to the letter to first-year students...
Notably absent from the debate was former U.S. attorney William F. Weld '66, considered a front-runner in the bid to receive the Republican party nomination at its statewide convention in March. According to campaign manager Ray Howell, Weld was obligated to attend a previously scheduled fund-raiser in Worcester...
Efforts to clean up HUD also ensnared a Democrat last week. Agency officials said Jesse Jackson bombarded them for months with calls on behalf of developer A. Bruce Rozet, a key Jackson fund raiser. To no avail: Rozet, who had grown rich on Government contracts, was barred from receiving more. Meanwhile HUD is examining why his tenants were allegedly left "to live like rats...