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When delegates to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank conference arrived in Washington, D.C., for an April gathering, they were met with the same taunts that had greeted conventioneers at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle the previous December. Some called them protesters (there were between 10,000 and 35,000 of them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice...
...urge you to send me the Senate legislation," Bill Clinton wrote Republican congressional leaders in September. By October, the Senate bill had met the House bill, and Clinton called it "little more than a false promise." But he signed it anyway, and Republicans - and some Democrats - made the plan a cornerstone of their re-election campaigns...
Card has come far since way back in 1974, when he first met Bush's father. He has worked as a garbageman, run a McDonald's, been a Massachusetts legislator, run and lost a bid for Governor and then came to Washington to work in the Reagan White House. For more than a year in 1987 and 1988, he slept on a cot in Bush's father's New Hampshire campaign headquarters. After three years as Sununu's deputy, he served as Transportation Secretary, then spent the Clinton years as a lobbyist for the automakers. His wife Kathleene...
...Boies met Mary McInnis, his third wife, when she was a lawyer on the White House staff in the late '70s and he was taking a sabbatical from Cravath to work with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee--and, not incidentally, had been divorced from his second wife for five years and was ready for a little order in his life. "It took me about 12 minutes to fall in love with him," she says. "He was smart, good-looking, unmarried--what could be wrong...
...went one night, where the lights are bright/ To see what I could see/ I met up with an old friend there, who thought the world of me/ He bought me drinks, and he took me to every honky-tonk in town/ But words were said, and now he's dead/ I just had to bring him down...