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...least two of the schemes used to raise money for Carey allegedly involved other top labor leaders. In one case, as Teamsters rank and file voted last October in a two-month process monitored by the Federal Government, the Carey campaign urgently needed a cash infusion for a final direct-mail push. Carey aides approached Trumka, asking the AFL-CIO "to help Ron." They were told the federation was short of cash. They suggested funneling $150,000 of Teamster money through the federation--and into Carey coffers. Trumka agreed, according to federal investigators. On Nov. 1, a Teamster check went...
This summer a 44-year-old Baltimore native named Jack was waiting to have the first of at least three pre-test counseling sessions, spaced over a two-month period. Jack had already cleared the neurological exam that, if it had turned up HD symptoms, would have made testing redundant. Though Jack is healthy, he was well versed in the disease: his grandmother and mother died from it, and he knows there is a fifty-fifty chance that he has inherited the time-bomb gene. Two siblings have tested negative, two others positive. One sister is battling symptoms, including...
Backed by the existing infrastructure and marketing savvy of the N.B.A., the W.N.B.A. has exceeded all expectations midway through its two-month inaugural season, averaging 8,766 in attendance, well above its projection of 4,500 a game, and occasionally eclipsing Major League Soccer and P.G.A. golf in the television ratings. W.N.B.A. games are televised nationally over NBC (weekends), ESPN (weekdays) and Lifetime (Fridays). Viewers watching the N.B.A. playoffs in June were besieged with the W.N.B.A. slogan, "We Got Next." The phrase is commonly used on playgrounds to reserve the next game, but in light of the early success...
...WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J.--Indonesia's Bukit-Barifan-Seletan National Park doesn't compare to Paris for many summer tourists. But a group of eight environmentally dedicated students--members of the Princeton's Save the Tiger campaign--will set out on a two-month adventure to the park in June...
...two-month Crimson investigation has found that one of Harvard's most valuable resources and one of the largest academic libraries in the world, the Widener stacks, are "decaying, turning to dust," in the words of Cline. And though the University has made plans to install a climate-control system to curb the decay, none of the $28 million needed to renovate Widener has yet been raised...