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...family name and connections," says Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy, 34, who used that name and those connections to shatter fund-raising records last year as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I often joke that I'm the best example of why there should be campaign-finance reform...
...presidential history), the President rushed through some last-minute errands. He didn't have to worry about canceling the papers or stopping the mail. He did have to resuscitate his education plan, persuade lawmakers to vote for his industry-friendly energy proposals and get his preferred version of HMO reform through the House. And so a President not known for working overtime managed to grind out a string of victories. The House easily passed Bush's energy package, which includes the Alaska drilling provision the pundits had declared dead. His education plan moved toward resolution; the Senate even passed...
...question of what will happen to Thailand's fragile reforms, to the corruption commission and the authority of the Constitutional Court does not interest him. In this campaign to stay in power, he has striven to make himself appear above the process and therefore above the law. The reasoning that the love of the people should trump the rule of law is specious and dangerous. "I wouldn't say reform will be dead," says Thepchai Yong, a columnist for the Nation newspaper, "but you could say it's in critical condition...
...pitch like his may soon be on its way to a classroom near you. So- called abstinence-only-until-marriage education was born of a little-noticed provision of the 1996 GOP welfare-reform legislation that set aside $50 million over five years for states that exhort kids to save sex until marriage. To snap up the funds, schools and community groups must agree to teach of the "harmful psychological and physical effects" of intercourse and only mention contraception in the context of its shortcomings...
...PUBLISHER: Mr. President, we're honored you brought the proposal to us. But, er, frankly, we think the asking price of $12 million is a little steep, considering... CLINTON (bristling): Considering what? This is history in the raw - Bosnia, welfare reform, Gingrich, government shutdown, Osama Bin Laden, Kosovo: years of lightning, days of drums. I'm the only one who can tell the story...