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Another item involves shadowing U.S. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), an activity his press secretary David L. Marin '91 said will be quite the experience...
...When a press release doesn't work, other groups take to the streets. In Montreal last week, activists opposed to genetically engineered foods demonstrated outside a global biotech conference. In France last year, similarly inclined groups dumped apples and manure in front of many local McDonald's, protesting their use of genetically engineered beef and grain. And last week a radical group that calls itself the Earth Liberation Front took responsibility for setting fire to a biotech lab at Michigan State University on New Year...
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...dress himself? As lame as the debates are, don't expect to see Bush mixing it up with Forbes and Keyes should he dispense with McCain. He'll revive his earlier excuse and suddenly have a lot of awards ceremonies to attend with his wife. He temporarily shut down press conferences after a reporter got too close to the bone. Voters have learned the hard way that character matters, that you need to know who someone is much more than you need to know what his tax plan entails. So candidates, unhand yourselves. We hardly know...
...trial was moved upstate to Albany after an appellate court ruled that extensive press coverage and anti-police demonstrations had tainted the pool of potential jurors in the Bronx. Diallo's supporters feared that in the new venue of Albany County, which is 89 percent white, the defense would play the race card by attacking Sharpton and his band. The cops' backers feared that Sharpton would stir up the blacks in Albany. But blacks in Albany did not need Sharpton to stir them up, because their city has its own ugly history of tension between blacks and cops...