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A "conventional thinker" might be forgiven for concluding from this record that what raises revenues is raising taxes, not cutting them.
Attorney General Janet Reno rejected a Republican request for an independent counsel to investigate Democratic fund raising.
At the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post the lead story is the investigation of Bill Clinton's fund raising.
In our fund raising efforts to date, we have received the support of local government, foundations, and corporations as well as the personal financial commitments of individual MCCOY Board members.
It wasn't that either of the two plot strands (the end of George's affair with a self-absorbed professor and start of another with a Vermont ex-hippie; Nina's decision not to marry the blowhard father of her baby) broke new ground, only that the mixture raised modern and entertaining questions: Why would this woman feel more comfortable raising a child with a homosexual man than with a heterosexual one?