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...President has helped bring in a record $41 million in soft money in less than two years, twice as much as the Republicans have raised during that time. "Clinton is now the king and protector of a corrupt system," says Fred Wertheimer, head of the government-watchdog group Common Cause...
Mobilizing all his forces, Clinton campaigned for NAFTA for weeks, even sending Vice President Al Gore '69 to debate Ross Perot, NAFTA's popular opponent and the billionaire watchdog for the common man. In an effort of pure will, Clinton secured a last minute NAFTA-victory by indefatigably pursued wavering senators in the face of strong opposition within his own party. It's hard to recall George Bush ever putting himself in such a position...
...evident from its inception. In fact Third Millennium's ranks are packed with friends of co-founder Bob Lukefahr from the Madison Center in Washington D.C., which funds over 100 neoconservative college publications nationwide, and Jon Karl from Freedom House in New York, the pro-democracy, human-rights watchdog which gave the group seed money. "The reason people who were invited were invited was largely an accident of rolodexes," says Lukefahr the invitation list of original founders at Hickory Hill. "Everybody can't be included. We tried to include as many bleeders as possible." Half of the liberal who were...
...price of that failure is high. The Washington watchdog group AIDS Action Council can locate "no clear public funding stream" for deaf people. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control, tallying informally, are unable to name major current programs totaling more than $200,000. "In practical terms, that's two, possibly three salaries," including the necessary coverage of employees' health care, says the Rev. Margaret Reinfeld, an official at the AIDS organization AMFAR (American Association for AIDS Research) who recently sat on a CDC external review for prevention programs. "There's absolutely no question that the resources are grossly insufficient...
South Africa no longer needs or wants a watchdog to reprimand us, but we would like to share as equals this part of our history which, despite high levels of violence, is an exciting and joyous occasion...