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...Ralph Nader knows when to cry foul. We would do well to heed his latest alarm, sounded Sunday at the FleetCenter and last night at Harvard Law School, about the growing confluence of money and power in our democratic politics...
...deals with the devil, politicians cannot easily extricate themselves from the vicious web of campaign contributions that simultaneously supports and constrains their political careers. When Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) tried, special interests drove the Straight Talk Express right off stage. And those completely outside the system, like Ralph Nader, struggle to survive, barely able to afford the $80,000 it takes to rent the FleetCenter, itself the result of public subsidy and private ownership. It was FleetBank, after all, which put up $100,000 to sponsor the presidential debate Nader can't afford...
...yesterday, as Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Governor George W. Bush prepared to debate, Ralph Nader stood at a bus stop, sheltered below the rumbling Red Line trains at the JFK-UMass T station...
...three, four, Bush and Gore are corporate whores!" chanted some demonstrators. "Five, six, seven, eight, why won't they let Ralph debate...
...Institute of Politics and Harvard student political organizations will celebrate the first presidential debate with a slew of events, including an appearance by Ralph Nader...