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Presidential Race Profile: John McCain JOHN MCCAIN: Summary Data Geographic Totals Sector Totals Top Industries Top Contributors Donor Lookup Personal Finances Other Data   OTHER CANDIDATES: All Candidates Gary Bauer Bill Bradley Pat Buchanan George W. Bush Steve Forbes Al Gore Orrin Hatch Alan L. Keyes John McCain   PRESS RELEASES: Bigger Bundles(11/4/99) Bush Dominates(7/27/99) Bundles Proliferate(7/22/99) Disclosure Improves(7/16/99) Lawyers Top Donors(4/27/99)   POLITICIANS HOME FORMAT TO PRINT THE CENTERFOR RESPONSIVEPOLITICS JOHN MCCAIN Contributions by Sector Sector Total Agribusiness $42,350 Communic/Electronics $500,407 Construction $68,239 Defense $18,300 Energy/Nat Resource $56,875 Finance/Insur/RealEst $796,139 Health $167,402 Ideology/Single-Issue $9,775 Labor $1,000 Lawyers & Lobbyists ...

Frank Rich is Dead FLASH: Frank Rich is dead today at age undetermined. Frank Rich once wrote for the New York Times a newspaper when they actually existed in his day. Rich, just like the paper, was dead long before they actually succumbed. They just didn't know it. In the case of the New York Times was a left-wing journal which once claimed and boasted that it was indeed the opinion-maker of the New York liberal elite. It was dead long before it actually stopped being published, an event barely noticed and honestly no-one cared. Frank Rich managed to outlive ...

ARAFAT DISASTER IS 'NET' LOSS FOR HILL By GREGG BIRNBAUM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Something's missing from First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's official White House Web site -- any mention of her controversial West Bank trip hosted by Yasser Arafat's wife. A new section on Clinton's government-run Web site describes virtually all of the first lady's activities in Israel and Jordan from Nov. 10 to 13 -- and illustrates them with numerous color photos taken by a White House photographer. But visitors to the site won't learn about one part of the trip that got a lot of attention back home -- Mrs. ...

HILL'S RUN: ATONEMENT FOR BILL? BILL Clinton is 100 percent behind his wife's Senate run despite a National Enquirer report that Hillary threatened the president with divorce over it, according to former top Clinton adviser Dick Morris. "The Senate run is Bill Clinton's shopping trip to Tiffany's to atone for his affair," Morris tells PAGE SIX's Ian Spiegelman. According to the tabloid Enquirer, just before Hillary announced her Senate run, she threatened divorce because the president bristled at her demand to come to New York and "be my Number Two" when his term finishes in 2001. "There's no way I'm ...

In a neglected part of his recent and notorious "isolationism" speech, national security adviser Sandy Berger acknowledged that the United States is often seen abroad as an overbearing "hectoring hegemon." But he concluded that, given the disparity of power and influence in the world today, there is not much we can do about it. Well, one thing we could do is keep President Clinton home and his mouth shut. Instead, he goes around the world smugly telling other people how to improve themselves. Clinton has this irresistible urge to pronounce himself on--and thus thrust the United States into--disputes that ...

Though The Union Leader decided to endorse Steve Forbes before Thursday night's forum, his impressive performance confirmed the judgment. His responses were the most detailed - and certainly the most Reaganesque - of the six Republican presidential candidates. Let's be clear: the format of the forum (one couldn't call it a debate) was not designed to highlight Forbes' many strengths. It was really more like six simultaneous interviews; individual candidates were asked specific questions that their counterparts didn't have an opportunity to answer or respond to. Forbes' policy proposals are the most sound of any of the candidates, but ...

Have you ever noticed that Alan Keyes and Marvin the Martian sound alike? Those stentorian, pear-shaped, apocalyptic declarations? Marvin is the little alien with the Roman helmet and big tennis shoes in Bugs Bunny cartoons who wants to blow up the earth, kaboom! Mr. Keyes warns of a "howling moral void." Mr. Martian warns of a void. "Brace yourself for immediate disintegration," the alien booms. The wily wabbit always foils Marvin by sneaking off with his Uranium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator. That makes the Martian "very angry, very angry indeed." Candidate Keyes is usually very angry as well, and also ...

Syria welcomes UN resolution on Golan DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 3 (UPI) Syria on Friday welcomed a new resolution by the U.N. General Assembly calling on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Golan Heights. Al-Baath newspaper, the mouthpiece of the ruling Baath Party, said the resolution asking for an Israeli pullout up to the June 4, 1967, line confirms the credibility of Syria's peaceful approach. The paper said the new U.N. position, which emphasizes the need to resume peace talks from the point where they stopped in 1996 and to respect pledges made during the previous negotiations, "undoubtedly indicates that the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - After spending years and billions of dollars to get business and government ready for Y2K, one main task remains: To make you ready. So here's some advice from the folks who clean up after floods, hurricanes and tornadoes: Treat the computer bug as you would an approaching storm. As the year ends, the focus shifts from getting computers ready to getting people prepared. Tests and simulations suggest that there's little need to worry about widespread disruptions, but sporadic glitches are likely - somewhere. ``No one can say what will happen,'' warns Rocky Lopes, the top disaster ...

1600 GMT, 991204 Yugoslavia – The European Union has announced that deliveries of heating oil to two opposition-run Serbian cities will continue, despite difficult border relations. 2020 GMT, 991203 Yugoslavia/European Union – The European Union will withdraw the heating oil trucks that have been sitting at the Yugoslav border for over a week and said Dec. 3 that the situation is "intolerable" and that future missions are being planned. 1715 GMT, 991203 Yugoslavia/European Union – The European Union accused Yugoslavia Dec. 2 of creating bogus reasons for the delaying of heating oil deliveries by E.U. trucks to Serbian towns in ...

$35 hour, free meals, perks from Pepsi and others. All this for vandilizing and looting Seattle. This comes from a college student who was paid to 'act up' in accordance to the higher powers' agenda at the WTO protest. I'm sure more factual information will be coming out on this, but I thought it a good idea to keep this in mind for the future riots. A name of Archer-Daniel-Midland was mentioned as the originator of this program... doesn't mean anything to me, maybe someone has more on this.

Jack Kenny: Who needs debates when we've got TV? By JACK KENNY THERE'S NOTHING NEW in hearing that another political "debate" was dull as dishwater and did not afford the candidates the opportunity to address the differences among them on important issues. It is unusual, though, to hear that kind of criticism voiced during the non-debate by one of the participating candidates. U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, one of the six Republican Presidential hopefuls taking part in the campaign event on WMUR-TV and the Fox News Network Thursday night, made just such an assessment in his closing statement. Though ...

Forbes marches on: Performance in debate is substantive, impressive Bernadette Malone Connolly Though The Union Leader decided to endorse Steve Forbes before Thursday night's forum, his impressive performance confirmed the judgment. His responses were the most detailed — and certainly the most Reaganesque — of the six Republican presidential candidates. Let's be clear: the format of the forum (one couldn't call it a debate) was not designed to highlight Forbes' many strengths. It was really more like six simultaneous interviews; individual candidates were asked specific questions that their counterparts didn't have an opportunity to answer or respond to. Forbes' policy ...

AUSTIN, Texas (December 5, 1999 12:00 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - After two decades of decline, alimony has begun to make a resurgence in American divorce law. This resurgence is due in part to a renewed focus on the job sacrifices women often make throughout a marriage and the value of their traditional role as family caretakers. Originally conceived as a support system for homemaking spouses unable to make a living for themselves, alimony had fallen out of favor since the advent of feminism in the early 1970s.

Race for Party Switcher's Seat Could Be Key to Battle for House By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 5, 1999; Page A17 LAKE GROVE, N.Y.—Just days before New York Rep. Michael P. Forbes switched from being a Republican to being a Democrat last summer, Richard and Rochelle Weissbard sent him a contribution. The Stony Brook couple is still fuming. "He's a political opportunist," Rochelle Weissbard said, as she made her way down the aisle of a gourmet grocery store. "He was dishonest with the people. He just made a switch for his own political expediency, not for ...

For N.Y. Mayor, A Minor Problem: Giuliani, Conservative Party Still Apart By Lynne Duke Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 5, 1999; Page A14 NEW YORK—In a small office above the Kiev International Deli out in deepest Brooklyn, Michael R. Long may hold the political fate of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in his hands. Long is chairman of the small but powerful New York State Conservative Party, and Giuliani is the presumptive Republican candidate for Senate. No Republican has won statewide election here since 1974 without the Conservative endorsement, and Long is daring Giuliani to try. All last week, rhetoric ...

Rivalries Surge As Forces Shift Near Primaries By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 5, 1999; Page A01 With the first votes just seven weeks away, Campaign 2000 has descended into the trenches. On the Democratic side, Vice President Gore and rival Bill Bradley are trading near-daily insults, a dramatic turn from a campaign that, from Bradley's perspective at least, was to be fought on a higher and nobler plain. Act 2 of this contest has brought a Gore revival after a summer of discontent. Bradley's campaign style dictated the rhythms of the contest for months. Now Gore ...

KAMPALA -- Thousands of grasshoppers have swarmed into this city and its residents are on the hop trying to catch and cook them for snacks. Young and old, men and women, wealthy and vagrants, all have been gathering under streetlights for the past few nights to try to snare the bright green grasshoppers attracted by the glare. Once caught, the grasshoppers are stripped of their wings and legs and fried as a snack. Ugandans say the insects go perfectly with a beer. "During the year, I usually sell vegetables," one vendor said. "But now I sell only grasshoppers." Some ...

Russian Military Finds War a Shot in the Arm: Conflict in Chechnya Renews Its Clout By David Hoffman Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, December 5, 1999; Page A01 MOSCOW, Dec. 4—On the last day of 1994, the Russian army's 131st Maikop Brigade rolled out of the hills and advanced on Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The brigade reached the airport, then headed for the central railroad station--and a death trap. The tanks and armored troop carriers were surrounded and blown apart by Chechen rebel fighters. Hundreds of Russian soldiers, without effective infantry protection, were burned and shot in a devastating ...

December 5, 1999 PROTEST STUDIES: Ways to Up the Revolution By JOE SHARKEY Hey-hey! Ho-ho! LBJ has got to go!" The classic syncopated chant from the anti-war movement of the 1960s was borrowed by protesters who took to the streets of Seattle last week during the meeting of the World Trade Organization. But the words were tweaked to fit the multisyllabic objects of a broad new range of outrages, including corporate globalization, automatic teller machine fees, environmental imperialism, coffee-bar gentrification, genetically modified food, endangered turtles, logging, shrimp farming, aggressive landlords and unemployment among Hollywood studio workers. "Hey-hey! Ho-Ho! WTO has ...