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Until the campaign ended, Huang looked like a fund-raising phenom. But it was a success that Giroir helped make possible. Investigators tell TIME that at a May 1996 fund raiser organized by Huang, Giroir wrote a check to the national party for $25,000 and let Huang fill in the names on three other checks of $25,000 each that wound up in state party coffers. And on July 30, at Huang's direction, Giroir contributed a total of an extra $75,000 to three states...
...take James Carville's much abused "It's the economy, stupid." It will stand the test of time, not just for capturing the essence of the 1992 Clinton candidacy but for uncannily foreshadowing the narrowness and shallowness (and one unalloyed success) of the entire Clinton presidency...
Though Reardon said running a successful campaign is work-intensive, he credits much of its success to the bull market. Since Harvard launched the Campaign in May 1994, the U.S. economy and financial markets have seen a boom...
Feagin also points to a low percentage of deferred gifts as another measure of the Campaign's success. University officials expected about 30 percent of donors to defer their gifts until their death or at least until a later date. To date, only 10 percent of gifts have been deferred...
...early '70s, I realized that achievement through persistence, self-discipline and hard work fosters self-esteem, self-reliance and many other positive qualities. Racism is bred in homes where children are deprived of the motivation that helps them to achieve. It is not racism that is a deterrent to success, but ignorance and personal vices. Minorities need only equal opportunity, education, pay and fair treatment. Like Connerly, I see myself as a color-blind American. Minorities will never be considered equal until they see themselves that way--as humans and Americans, not as minorities. CHRISTINE JONES Barcelona, Venezuela...