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First-team All-Ivy junior linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski will anchor the defense. Linebacker might now be the best position on the team because it includes senior strong-side backer Scott Larkee and weak-side backers Joe Weidle and Clint Kollar. Junior strong safety Aron Natale technically isn't a linebacker, but he is usually the eighth man in running situations. He also has the athleticism to cover receivers...
...group, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, has received a $500,000 pledge from State Farm Insurance (to be paid over five years), and its recent "Feel the Power" convention was partly sponsored by ARCO (a company that was boycotted by Hispanics in 1994 after it supported Governor Pete Wilson, backer of the anti-immigrant Proposition 187). With Hispanics at more than a quarter of California's population, these companies are seeking goodwill, but the impact of corporate generosity goes beyond customer loyalty. The funding of Latino registration and get-out-the-vote efforts is likely to benefit Democrats, particularly gubernatorial...
There have been skeptics, however. As one Armey backer said of Paxon in The Washington Post, "He's a guy who would lie to your face and stab you in the back. We're going to miss him." But with the focus suddenly turned from Paxon's recent display of political ambition to his sudden rededication to family values, much of the media attention Paxon has received has been favorable, and he was heartily applauded last week by many of his colleagues for his decade of service in Congress...
...separation from the ubiquitous philanthropist. Those who haven't taken money from him usually work with someone who has. Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham writes in her memoir that Nixon wanted Scaife to buy the Post during the Watergate scandal. Scaife has also financed the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a backer of former FBI agent Gary Aldrich's loosely sourced, Clinton-bashing best seller Unlimited Access, and the Free Congress Foundation, which once set up a toll-free hot line for women who claimed they had been sexually harassed by President Clinton. (Please hold; your call will be answered...
...Christian Coalition a powerful national voice, Bauer has transformed the Family Research Council from an organization with a 3,000-member mailing list and a $200,000 budget into one with 455,000 members and a $14 million budget. And like Reed, who had Pat Robertson as his backer, Bauer has the widely followed radio evangelist Rev. James Dobson behind him. With Reed off the stage in Atlanta as a political consultant and Gingrich obsessing about tax cuts, Christian activists have reason to feel ignored. "They feel they helped elect a Republican majority and didn...