The populist senator from Massachusetts could derail Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency.
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When It Comes to Raising Cash, Women Have Long Been Leaning In
Ann Herberger had designs on becoming “a great Broadway actress.†That’s before she ended up in Washington in the 1980s, and under the tutelage of an accomplished female fundraiser.
Now based in Miami, she raises cash full-time for prominent Republicans—notably the Bush family—and loves her job as a professional fundraiser. “They’re the most powerful people that nobody knows,†she says.
It’s a common tale. While men still dominate top jobs in politics, government, and lobbying, professional fundraising represents an arena in which women play on level turf. Many campaign operatives, lobbyists, and fundraisers say female finance directors and fundraisers are at least at parity with men, and may well outnumber them. Some even say that if there’s only one woman in the room, she’s likely to be the fundraiser.
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Spying Scandal Alters U.S. Ties With Allies and Raises Talk of Policy Shift
Revelations about the N.S.A. surveillance efforts in Europe are resulting in unprecedented backlash, and some wonder if it is more important to collect data on allies or to be able to work with them.
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GCHQ used fake Slashdot, LinkedIn to target employees at Internet exchanges
A new Snowden leak, reported by Laura Poitras in Der Spiegel, shows that the UK spy agency GCHQ used fake versions of Slashdot and LinkedIn to attack tech staff at Global Roaming Exchanges — interchange points where large networks meet up.
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Aurora shooting to test reporter ‘shield’ law
NEW YORK’S highest court will decide whether state law protects a reporter from revealing confidential sources from a story about James Holmes, the accused Colorado movie theater gunman.
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New Conservative Crusade Ready for Launch
Michelle Obama, after nearly five years of evangelizing exercise and good eating habits, will begin a new initiative on Tuesday that seeks to increase the number of low-income students who pursue a college degree.
Well, that’s that. I guess that low-income students going to college is now set to become the latest thing that conservatives hate. I can hardly wait.
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Food-Stamp Cuts Likely to Nick CPGs
Uncle Sam has a lump of coal for retailers and packaged-goods marketers just in time for the holidays: a $5 billion cut in food-stamp benefits.
That may seem tiny in the context of a $3.5 trillion federal budget, but that $5 billion amounts to a 5% reduction in benefits for a family of four, or $36 a month. Sanford C. Bernstein analysts projected cutbacks could slash the revenues of U.S. food and beverage companies around 1%.
And even if recipients reduce spending on things other than food, growth for packaged-goods marketers and retailers could take a hit. Kantar Retail estimates the cuts could carve 0.5 percentage points off the anticipated 2.5% annual growth rate for consumables retailing in the U.S.
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Goldman staff flustered over make-or-break promotions
The heat is on at Goldman Sachs. Hundreds of mid-level bankers at the gold-plated Wall Street firm will be sweating out the next few days, wondering if they will make…
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Working to Outrun That Giant Mouse
It is a lot of work looking back, the artist Art Spiegelman recently said, over a breakfast of fruit and meringues at the Jewish Museum, where the exhibition, "Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective," opens Friday.
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Daily Report: Twitter’s I.P.O. Takes Flight, Despite Slowing Growth
The offering has already raised $1.8 billion, but the company now faces a challenge with an interface that can be challenging for newcomers and may be inhibiting its widespread use.
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