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What happened to the good ole days of campaign finance reform? It has seemingly vanished with little more than a whimper. Take the recent actions of John McCain, the champion of campaign finance legislation, who recently removed his name as co-sponsor of a bill aimed at expanding the presidential public financing program. Yes, the McCain of the McCain-Feingold bill has retreated from the battle lines. But the leading Democratic candidates have not acted any better. Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, and John Edwards have already indicated that they will be opting out of the public financing system...
CONGRESSMAN JIM MORAN, Virginia Democrat and co-sponsor of a bill requiring labels for all clothes with fur, introduced after the Humane Society discovered manufacturers using dog fur and calling it fake, prompting some retailers to pull items from shelves...
...which families of college students who were suspected of committing suicide sued universities officials for failing to provide adequate mental health care. “It is the only bill of its type in the country,” said the bill’s sponsor, Delegate Albert C. Eisenberg, a Democrat, in a phone interview with The Crimson. But at Harvard, a top mental health official said that the legislation, if signed into law, could carry dangerous consequences for Virginia universities in forcing them to care for mentally ill students. “Who would be responsible...
...Nestlé also fights HIV/AIDS as the founding corporate sponsor of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Africa Health Initiative 2010. Our contribution focused initially on an educational project of young people in Nigeria seeking to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. The educational materials have been jointly developed with the WHO. The program is successful: It has now expanded to 14 countries on three continents. The project also provided the seed for an African business coalition which has developed to spread it even further...
...houses of the future be plastered with ads and flashing messages? Will we begin to expect advertisements not only at the beginning of our phone calls but also to be cut off mid sent—please hold for the following paid message from this author’s sponsor...