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...happen. He kept in touch with fund raisers by conference call and e-mail and rallied them for the midterm election, writing gracious thank-you notes in his trademark blue felt-tip pen. After Congress doubled the gift limit to $2,000 a pop, Oliver helped institute a higher tier of fund raiser: the Rangers, who each raise $200,000 or more...
...Iraq. Four U.S. soldiers were killed by enemy fire across Iraq last week; since May 26, the tally is 15. Pentagon officials say they see no evidence that attacks by what they call noncompliant forces are directed by Saddam. But Hicks says the attacks have been coordinated by "tier one" officials from Saddam's intelligence services, as well as senior members of the former Iraqi army's elite Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard, who are galvanizing loyalists to try to drive out the Americans. "There are people out there who are thriving on the thought that Saddam is still...
...little more than six months away from the primaries. The real campaign will probably begin on Labor Day, but the Democratic field seems to have organized itself into three tiers. The bottom tier is the vanity candidacies: Al Sharpton, Dennis Kucinich, Carol Moseley Braun. The middle tier is serious candidates who have yet to catch fire: Joe Lieberman (despite high name recognition in the polls), John Edwards (despite financial support from his fellow trial lawyers and some creative speeches about specific issues) and Bob Graham. At the top are John Kerry, the party establishment's favorite; Dick Gephardt, the Midwest...
...aren't so bullish. Robert Dickinson, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, a consulting firm based in San Jose, Calif., says that without the corporate heft to cut deals with distributors like drugstore chain CVS (which sells AEDs made by Philips), Cardiac won't ever graduate from being a "mid-tier player...
...answer for graduate students at Yale. Yale students receive a very competitive stipend and benefits package. Graduate stipends are market-driven, and locking them in at a certain level with a collectively bargained contract would prevent the university from being able to compete with other top-tier schools in attracting the best graduate students. Yale has a functioning, effective Graduate Student Assembly composed of representatives from every graduate department. These students have the ear of the dean, sit on dozens of university committees, and meet annually with the Board of Trustees. The Assembly is legitimate, democratic, and able to respond...