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1 contender is the JFK assassination.
Building-space on the water being what it is, Venice has only one real piazza (all others are called “campi”), but in comparison, any other contender would have died of shame anyway.
The Democratic contender also netted more contributions over the Internet than anyone else, surpassing $1.
Portillo, who is seeking re-election to Parliament and is widely seen as an eventual contender for the party leadership, said he wanted to put an end to untrue rumors about his sex life--one being that he had a homosexual affair with another former Conservative minister--by instead volunteering the truth.
Their campaign has two main purposes, it said: first, to find a pretext for the West to distance itself from Boris Yeltsin, whom it no longer needs as a bulwark against communism; and second, to dump Gore as a contender for the presidency.