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Despite their skepticism, the company has been managed to grow quickly since its inception, receiving a half-million hits in its first month...
Only one person has nothing to lose at this year?s supercharged Iowa straw poll: the treasurer of the Iowa Republican Party, who?ll have raked in a cool half-million for the cause by the time voting kicks off Saturday. For the nine GOP presidential candidates frenetically bribing voters with free tickets, celebrities and tchotchkes galore -? it?s OK, it?s not a real electoral event ?- it?s pretty much do or die. For George W. Bush, who has spent about $750,000 on the event, anything less than a convincing win is a dangerous stumble. Steve Forbes, whose...
...policy. Yet the first, riveting picture bounced back across the Atlantic was of a frightened, scarlet-faced President Bill Clinton shouting "Back!" as he was nearly trampled by screaming, shoving crowds in Ghana's capital of Accra. Complained the Rev. Jesse Jackson, shepherding Clinton across the African continent: "A half-million people were reduced to 40. So America saw us through a keyhole rather than a door." Unruly mobs in sweltering heat, photo ops with men who came to power at gunpoint, people dancing in brilliantly colored garb: those were often the familiar scenes seized on by the press...
While he called the over half-million dollar grant "a good start," Poussaint expects the show will eventually require over six million dollars...
...heroin addicts are addicted for life, even if they stop using it--a warning Ted C. might well heed. What's more, buprenorphine will probably cost more than methadone, ruling it out for poor junkies without government aid. Still, it could be a lifeline for many of the estimated half-million American addicts. Predicts Rotrosen: "It will fundamentally change the way heroin is treated...