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...Meilis residency.) Other Jewish benefactors have provided furniture, English classes, driving lessons, two 10-year-old cars, the $31,000-a-year doorman job and synagogue schooling for his children, ages five and three. "The Meilis are among the righteous gentiles," says Toby Goldberger, a United Jewish Appeal fund raiser. "We could do no less...
...Clinton-Gore campaign, they lapse into Pidgin English, reminiscent of the language that G.I.s in Korea employed to palaver with shoeshine boys and barmaids? Maybe committee investigators were told to keep their eyes out for a tape on which Bruce Lindsey says to Maria Hsia, a fund raiser prosecutors considered generous to a fault, "Listen, missy, you tell Charlie Trie boss needs money chop-chop...
...Bradley's small office in Palo Alto, Calif., near the campus of Stanford University, where Bradley is a visiting professor this year. And sources close to Bradley tell TIME that their man has been in discussions with New Jersey trial lawyer Ted Wells, a major Democratic fund raiser and former Bradley finance chairman, to plan what a clean-but-effective fund-raising operation might look like. Campaign money is a ticklish subject for Bradley, who was criticized for raising a Goliath-like $12 million before his 1990 Senate race against Christine Todd Whitman, which he just barely won. This time...
...Gingrich last night flew to Joe?s defense at a GOP fund-raiser, saying movies rather than advertising promoted teenage smoking. He also lambasted the President for smoking cigars to celebrate victories. ?If the Republicans want to claim that advertising has no influence on youth smoking, that?s a battle the White House would love to fight,? says Branegan. Indeed, the news might have even tempted the President to light up a stogie...
...committee all but ignored protests from cigarette manufacturers. Despite giving more than $12 million since 1995 to the Republican Party and G.O.P. candidates and spending record sums on Ermenegildo Zegna-clad lawyers, the once mighty tobacco lobby has lost almost all its clout in Congress. Quipped a G.O.P. fund raiser: "Twelve million doesn't buy what it used to." McCain wasn't so sympathetic either. He was convinced that once the companies realized that the deal would only get worse for them the longer they held out, they would come aboard. Not that the fight is over. "Keep a steady...