Word: raskin
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Webster Groves' lasting bitterness made it all the more surprising that school administrators would even consider allowing our team of eight reporters, under the command of assistant managing editor Dan Goodgame, and five photographers, guided by deputy picture editor Hillary Raskin, to invade their world. They were in part impressed with last year's award-winning special issue, "A Week in the Life of a Hospital," about the Duke University Medical Center, which we told them would be a model for this project. But they were also persuaded by our regional ambassador, team member and Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill...
DIED. BARBARA RASKIN, 63, author of the best-selling novel Hot Flashes (1987), a paean to female friendship; of complications after surgery; in Baltimore...
...walleted candidates who can shoulder the burden themselves. It also explains why elders of both parties quietly persuaded the authors of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill to remove new limits on the amount wealthy candidates can contribute to their own campaigns. Grumbles law professor Jamin Raskin: "Working-class people have about as much chance of running for Senate as they have of winning the lotto...
...Texas. Hersh thinks it was blackmail. He says that during a closed-door meeting with Kennedy, Johnson may have threatened to disclose J.F.K.'s dirty laundry, though Hersh doesn't know which laundry or even whether Johnson had anything on Kennedy at all. His main source? The late Hyman Raskin, a little-known Chicago lawyer and Democratic political operative. In interviews and an unpublished memoir, Raskin says that Kennedy had settled on Missouri Senator Stuart Symington as his running mate until Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn pulled him into that mysterious meeting...
...Raskin's claim is seconded by Clark Clifford, the longtime Washington power broker, who tells Hersh he served as Kennedy's go-between with Symington. Later, says Clifford, Kennedy told him he was forced to accept Johnson. But blackmail is a badly stretched conclusion for an author who has so little hard evidence to go on--and who paints Johnson in other parts of the book as ignorant of Kennedy's hidden undertakings...