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...sessions) 19. Eventual hole in the wall? 20. Toots of restaurant fame 23. Ankle bones 27. Osama bin __, who has been linked to the Philippines' Moro Islamic Liberation Front 29. The Library of Congress has opened a show dedicated to her 33. D.C.'s Pennsylvania, for one 34. Dough raiser 36. www.time.com e.g. 37. Intel's CEO, who's downplayed the impact of a Microsoft split 39. Hero of the NBA championship 41. Siouan-speaking tribesmen 43. Olympus Mountains peak 44. Ohio representative Tony, who is seeking a congressional apology for slavery 47. Succumb to the throwing yips...
CONRAD: ...cost to attend the fund raiser...
...chart that ran with your profile of Democratic Party fund raiser Terry McAuliffe noted that the two major political parties will raise more than $1 billion for this fall's election [NATION, June 5]. That is another telltale sign of our nation's frivolous attitude toward money. And unfortunately, all this cash will be spent only on the elections! The better things get, the less interested we are in the most serious areas of governing. The more money we have, the more public indifference there is to those who are hurting the most. And the beat goes...
...After eight years, the administration may have finally learned that fast, full disclosure is the best scandal-douser. The 150 pages (gist: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'fund-raiser' is") don't seem to contain any legal red flags, at least for lay readers unfamiliar with the minutiae of the case, which is pretty much everybody outside the Justice Department. And Gore's releasing them himself is an unmistakable signal that he's confident of his innocence, or at least his defense: a really bad memory and a very small bladder. It's also the best...
Tony Coelho was Al Gore's dark side, a champion fund-raiser and short-tempered manager who couldn't even go on the Sunday talkies for fear of getting asked about the pending State and Justice Department investigations into his ethics...