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Known across the country as a motivational speaker, Murray delivered her first speech in a forum with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and continues to speak to organizations and educational institutions...
...Salmon, a former Congressman who led the 1998 coup attempt against House Speaker Newt Gingrich, has brushed off barbs likening him to his G.O.P. predecessors but has had a harder time deflecting attention from his wallet. He has received about $150,000 so far this year to lobby Congress for Phoenix civic projects (like the city's proposed light-rail system) that could deprive other Arizona cities of federal funds. "Are you running for Governor, or are you doing business?" asks Cecelia Martinez, director of the state's Clean Elections Institute...
Massey, the keynote speaker at last night’s forum on electricity policy, acknowledged that moving from the current “hodgepodge” of systems of regional and local regulation to one central system will be difficult, but he said he pledges to push ahead with the idea anyway...
...Franken ’73, the 2002 Class Day speaker. He is the author, most recently, of Oh! The Things I Know! A Guide to Success, or, Failing That, Happiness. A five-time Emmy winner and one-time Grammy winner, Franken’s previous best-sellers include Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot. Almost everything. You name it, I don’t know it. Biology, physics, comic books, cars. Trees, bridges—how they work. No engineering at all. Refrigerators. Chemistry. I think you just look at the course catalogue and eliminate everything?...
...they largely obeyed a time-honored principle of mutually assured incumbency. But the latest Census resulted in Connecticut's losing a House district, so state lawmakers merged Maloney's and Johnson's. Their race and the few other toss-ups will decide whether Dick Gephardt will take over the Speaker's gavel. The most recent poll has Johnson leading 44% to 39% among likely voters. She has built that small lead while greatly outspending Maloney. At last count, she had raised more than $2 million; he had a quarter of that. She has used the cash primarily to buy more...