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...money is constitutionally protected. However, this gives wealthy candidates a tremendous advantage. The answer, to avoid injury to the Constitution, is not to limit the amount someone can spend on his own campaign but to offset it. If a candidate provides 15% or more of his campaign war chest, the opponent's party should be allowed to match that amount through a soft-money contribution...
...would crawl through a field of nettles four times during the shooting of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, until he had a satisfactory take, keeping the blood from multiple scratches hidden from director John Huston. And the kind of actor who in Cape Fear smashed an egg against his bare chest and let it drip unheeded--metaphorical blood this time, from a profoundly wounded psyche--as he proceeded to scare the wits out of Polly Bergen...
...much, and let Di Muro know it. Since American umpires take less guff than their Japanese counterparts, Di Muro tossed Taiho out of the game. That touched off a melee. The crowd jeered at the American, and coaches and players charged him. Taiho repeatedly shoved Di Muro in the chest. The end result: U.S. baseball officials called Di Muro home last week, while Taiho played ball as usual...
...such as Islam and Buddhism. But it's theRussian Orthodox Church that was the driving force behind the move. The church has increasingly seen its hold over Russian souls wrested away by foreign upstarts from Hare Krishnas to Mormons to Aum Shinri Kyo wannabe-cults. Calling on a war chest (supplied by its duty-free, multimillion dollar oil export and cigarette import deals, according to the Russian-language weekly Kapital), the Church wields enough political clout to squelch the competition -- and keep Russian souls at home...
Trying to be, as ICG's motto puts it, "the dominant alternative to the local exchange monopoly" costs a bundle. Capital spending of $228 million last year outweighed $190 million in sales. Bryan has raised a $1.1 billion war chest; without deregulation, he says, "the financial markets wouldn't have been open to us." But a payoff is in sight. In Ohio, where the company is attempting to woo customers away from Ameritech, ICG marketers' cold calls have led to a remarkable 50% in follow-up appointments. Bryan says ICG will probably have a positive cash flow next year...