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...house's public-education committee, the Democrat is a longtime player on the issue closest to Bush's heart, education reform, which had been under way in Texas for a decade by the time Bush ran. In 1993, Sadler led the fight to scrap the state's education code, and during Bush's first term, Sadler and others were writing the new code. Sadler says Bush jumped into the reform effort immediately and to great effect."His role in the rewrite was significant," says Sadler. "He met weekly with me at first, and by the end, almost daily--he used...
...that, says Laney, "is when he grabbed his little piece of his pie." The $1 billion budget surplus was still on the table, and Bush used it to fund a $1 billion property-tax cut that passed easily. He didn't get his ambitious reshaping of the tax code, but he got a tax cut to run on. (In 1999 he got another--the two biggest in Texas history, as he never tires of saying.) Bush describes his salvaging of the '97 tax cut as a bold stroke, the triumph of his Trojan horse strategy. Laney says, "He took...
Choosing the right networks took time. About 50 were used for the Yahoo attack; more were employed in later hits. But once they were selected, activation was simply a matter of uploading bits of code called daemons, similar to viruses, which bided their time in dark corners of these remote networks until the hacker decided it was DOS Day. The attacks appeared to come from them, not him (attacks from multiple sites are hard to pin down in any case). When the "master" activates his daemons, his hands remain unseen. Technically, "the Amazons and Yahoos were not hacked into," notes...
...electoral process, funds from political action committees (PAC) are the big bucks that pay for a modern media campaign. Individual contributions, however, are often more interesting. Data from the candidates' mandatory Federal Election Commission filings are on the web, and searchable at www.tray.com/fecinfo. (Try searching for zip code...
...those websites, www.tray.com, which is run by a former FEC official, cross-lists donors by name, occupation, place of employment and zip code. Interested citizens are a few clicks away from finding who donates to who. All contributions though Jan 31. over $200 are listed...