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...voter opinion polls in this year's presidential race. And Gore's connection to the Clinton-Gore Asian fund-raising muddle is one of his most prominent pressure points. While prosecutors argued that Hsia, the California immigration consultant who arranged Gore's infamous Buddhist temple fund-raiser, engaged in her illegal activities unbeknownst to the veep or the Democratic party, GOP leadership wasted no time in using the verdict to argue for increased scrutiny of the Democrats' all-but-anointed presidential candidate...
...increase their number 30. Name conspicuously absent from Senate campaign posters 34. Copernicus' sci. 35. Sennett lawman 36. Franklin's mom 37. FICA funds it 38. Cartoon voice __ Blanc 39. Sporty VW 40. Kurdish rebels have given up the fight here 42. Congressman Charles, a leading Democratic fund raiser 45. Sidestep 46. Drive forward 47. __ Wide Shut 48. This company offered PCs to all its employees down...
...wall. Like his dad fending off Bob Dole in 1988, "W" was resistant, but unlike his dad, he wouldn't be budged. One reason: "W" believed he was gaining strength and didn't feel the need to get nasty. "It was a principal problem," said a big fund raiser, using the antiseptic, military language of the White House. "It's in his genes. They had to beg his old man to put up an ad 12 years ago, but 'W' didn't want...
...Washington Democrats, when we need a conservative leader to challenge them: Governor Bush. Proven. Tested. And ready to lead America." On the trail, Bush was even sharper, blasting McCain's "Washington double-talk" for casting himself as a reformer while flying on corporate jets and planning a Washington fund raiser this week to schmooze with the lobbyists he vilifies on the trail...
...less centralized than those of previous high-profile terrorists, such as the Palestinian Abu Nidal. After all, Bin Laden is less of a CEO and more the head of a loosely grouped holding company. He built his network by putting his considerable resources as a funder and fund-raiser at the center of an international movement to recruit fighters from throughout the Arab world to help Afghanistan resist the Soviet invasion. Those fighters became a nucleus that was deployed in other conflicts involving Muslims, such as Bosnia and Chechnya - and, at Bin Laden-financed camps in Afghanistan, trained Islamic militants...