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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...would-be Democratic donor looks at the polls, looks at Bush, looks at Gore... and suddenly sees the House, GOP-controlled by only six seats, as his last best investment opportunity. A big check made out to the Democrats, who'll then pour it into the close races in hopes of tipping the numbers, puts the donor in a position to be a hero to any number of Democrats newly in charge of powerful committees who'll be very, very grateful. And congressional Democrats, used to being outspent 2 to 1, are quietly pimping those expectations...
...years old (14 on July 12), and where I live it is quite hard for me to admit my obsession for "Harry Potter." My close friends know a little bit, but not all of it. But I just wanted to tell you that if a woman in her 20s can do it, so can I. - Brittini...
...Sources close to the Harvard-trained Lenzner say client-confidentiality agreements and his attorney's sense of ethics often prevent him from speaking publicly about I.G.I. investigations. In a statement last week, Lenzner asserted that all I.G.I.'s actions have been legal. In Washington, where he earned his stripes as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1972, Lenzner has amassed a circle of powerful friends that includes Cokie Roberts, former Senator Tim Worth and Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and his wife Brooke Shearer. Lenzner's son Jon, 26, defended his dad's professional tactics...
Change has been coming to Mississippi's mental-health-care system, but it has been slow. State senator Billy Thames, an influential Democrat, led reform efforts in 1997 after a close relative waited a month for an appointment at her local clinic. "I started making calls, and I could not get any help," he says. "What about the average person who doesn't know anybody?" Thames produced the Mental Health Reform Act of 1997, which, along with subsequent legislation, promised to create seven regional crisis-intervention centers that would keep the mentally ill out of jail, closer to their relatives...
...dashing John Kennedy, who promised to "get America moving again." Hmmm. It was not much of an embrace. Kennedy won that election by an eyelash - some think it was an electoral eyelash conjured up by Mayor Richard Daley from the graveyards of Cook County, Ill. In any case, too close an election to support the Bush thesis...