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That doesn't mean the process is pretty to watch, which helps account for Gore's extraordinary performance last week. His suggestion that he wasn't pressuring donors for soft money struck other fund raisers as ludicrous. Given his position, they allege, the call itself is a form of shakedown. When a Vice President phones potential donors, the White House operator comes on the line and says, "Hold for the Vice President," or a steely-toned military aide barks, "Hold for Sawhorse," using Gore's code name. It's not as if they have much choice...
After much debate, the Senators last week struck a deal to make sure that Thompson never gets close enough to do them any harm. Only "illegal activities" during the 1996 race would come under scrutiny, which, we now know, takes the most unseemly hustling--all the soft money and all the independent expenditures--off the table and leaves only questions like whether Beijing secretly funded anyone's campaign...
...struck by the qualities of his character, and the smoothness of his writing," said Robert S. Brustein, director of the Loeb Drama Center. "He was destined to be an important playwright...
That same evening, vandals struck the female first-year's room again, taking a Walkman and tossing a cassette tape into a bowl of water...
...rash of break-ins has struck the commercial district of North Cambridge over the past two months...