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This time the Bears and Big Green had the upper hand, as Brown won its second-straight Outdoor Heps with 122 points, and Dartmouth placed second with 103, eight points ahead of the third-place Crimson...
...deal. What it had then was leverage. Figuring that TW would tread lightly lest it disturb Washington's slumbering regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, Disney asked for that one thing all negotiators hold out for when they've got the upper hand: more...
Another point should be noted. Rowings did not contribute to the election campaigns of candidates for Congress. Nor did Charles and Lisa Trapp. Nor Maxean Bowen. Their creditors, on the other hand, have contributed millions and millions of dollars to get the legislation they want--from thousands of small donations of less than $5,000 to hundreds of large ones ranging from $5,000 to more than a quarter-million dollars. Since 1997 credit-card companies and other lenders have given $2.2 million to the House and Senate Judiciary Committee members responsible for drafting the legislation, according to data compiled...
...just idle chatter. For instance, Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council and Washington's uber-wonk, sought out executive story editor Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about an episode involving the Federal Reserve chairman. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright marched up to Patrick Caddell, once the right hand of Jimmy Carter and now a consultant for the show, and told him how much she liked the India-Pakistan episode. "She said it was one of the best expositions on foreign policy on TV that she'd seen," recalls Caddell...
University of Washington professor David Shields, author of Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, sees Spree's silence as finesse. "He's never gonna tell. He'd be playing into sports journalism's hand. Like the racial situation in America--silences speak more than the utterances." Shields says Sprewell is one of the few players in the NBA--along with Seattle's Gary Payton, Houston's retiring veteran Charles Barkley and former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman--who consistently, either consciously or subconsciously, bring racial issues to the fore through their use of language and symbols...