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Kevin Casey, Harvard’s top lobbyist in Washington, D.C., said yesterday the University was more interested in growing the entire pie than protecting its own slice. But he declined to take a position on the reallocation of campus-based financial...
Theory met practice as an evangelical theologian and a gay rights lobbyist squared off on the issue of same-sex marriage before a Science Center audience of about 150 on Saturday night...
...gain from their work. Women who step out of their careers can find the loss of identity even tougher than the loss of income. "I don't regret leaving, but a huge part of me is gone," says Bronwyn Towle, 41, who surrendered a demanding job as a Washington lobbyist to be with her two sons. Now when she joins her husband Raymond, who works at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at work-related dinners, she feels sidelined. "Everyone will be talking about what they're doing," says Towle, "and you say, 'I'm a stay-at-home...
...included a stint running EMILY's List, a fund-raising powerhouse that trains and raises money for women candidates. She also ran Bill Clinton's White House liaison operation, handling various constituency groups, including business. While working on China trade policy, she met her future husband Steve Champlin, a lobbyist for the Duberstein Group, but the two didn't really start to get to know each other until they found themselves with time to kill at the Seattle airport after the riotous WTO talks of 1999. Their courtship played out in a uniquely Beltway fashion. She asked...
...government to make $1.6 billion in loan guarantees under a provision designed to relieve the aftereffects of Sept. 11. The smaller carriers complain that taxpayers should not be asked to keep financing those airlines' inefficient ways. "What kind of public policy is it," asks Edward Faberman, a Washington lobbyist who helped compose the letter, "to relieve bad management from their mistakes and to prop up dinosaur companies?" Responds a spokeswoman for United: "These moves are what's needed to be competitive in this environment, and they are being done in cost-effective ways." --By Sally B. Donnelly