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...tinkerer who ran a workshop in his backyard; those skills would have been invaluable in assembling and transporting a bomb. He was also known to repair mobile phones; police believe such a handset may have been used to set off the bomb in Bali. He was a former hell-raiser who had turned devout in recent years. And, above all, Amrozi was a man with strong ties to Islamic radicals suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. His eldest brother co-founded the village's religious school, which then forged connections with an institution originated by Abubakar Ba'asyir, the Muslim...
...Richmond remembers exclaiming when she first saw Snappy perform at a fund-raiser. She says she felt there was “this incredible similarity” between her photography and the dancing. Soon Richmond was in touch with Snappy Artistic Director Martha Mason and sitting in on the company’s rehearsals. Before long, Richmond, whose previous installations were all of inanimate objects, decided the acrobatic Snappy dancers would make ideal subjects...
...Terry McAuliffe The Democratic Party chair - and number one fund-raiser - was shaking his head early last night as Republican-friendly returns started rolling in. We suspect he's still shaking his head Wednesday...
...have been emboldened by an Administration that is sympathetic to their cause. The closeness was underscored by the fact that the military-style gun used in the sniper attacks--named, unfortunately for the White House, Bushmaster XM15--was manufactured by a company owned by Richard Dyke, a Bush fund raiser. Dyke, who briefly headed George W. Bush's 2000 fund-raising operation in Maine, had to give up that job when a controversy erupted over the fact that his firm makes assault weapons; Dyke said he wanted to avoid attracting bad publicity to the candidate...
...McBride's internal polls suggest. That's a fund-raising tool." At a school in New Smyrna Beach with the President, there are none of the usual little-brother jokes that Jeb never found funny anyway. The two then move on to a $25,000-a-person fund raiser at a Daytona Beach mansion...