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Limits and Loopholes

By: Victoria A. Farrar-Myers,Diana Dwyre

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Limits and Loopholes

By: Victoria A. Farrar-Myers,Diana Dwyre

From the authors of Legislative Labyrinth: Congress and Campaign Finance Reform. Elections, the basic mechanism of representative democracy, should be untainted by corruption and provide a platform for free speech. But running for office takes money—a lot of it, usually—which means campaign finance has become a pitched battle over the fundamental political values of free speech versus fair elections. With insiders' perspectives, Farrar-Myers and Dwyre tell the story of what it took to pass campaign finance legislation, provide analysis of the subsequent court action, and explore the regulatory and electoral outcomes of reform efforts. Limits and Loopholes is a story about incremental policymaking and inter-branch struggle, about institutional design and unintended consequences, about the influence of interest groups and the media, and about the health of our representative democracy. Bringing together discussions of core values and the policymaking process, this book serves as an excellent case study that traces an issue from inception, through legislation and litigation, and finally to implementation.

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SAGE

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0872893294

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9780872893290

Frommer's Florida

By: Bill Goodwin,Victoria P. Elliot,Mary Meehan

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Frommer's Florida

By: Bill Goodwin,Victoria P. Elliot,Mary Meehan

Miami and Orlando continue to break records, and the strong performances of the cruise industry and Walt Disney World promise to usher in another banner year. Disney's new Animal Kingdom opened earlier this year and is sure to draw even more visitors. From magic on land to magic on sea - Carnival Cruise Lines has added the 1,100 passenger Tropicale, sailing from Tampa on four and five day cruises to Key West and the Caribbean. Previous Edition ISBN: 002861657X

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680

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MacMillan Publishing Company

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0028622553

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9780028622552

The Big Book of U.S. Presidents

By: Victoria Sherrow,Bill Prosser,Julian Baker,Janet Baker

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The Big Book of U.S. Presidents

By: Victoria Sherrow,Bill Prosser,Julian Baker,Janet Baker

Hundreds of facts and illustrations about the life and times of each President, from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

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1898784248

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9781898784241

The Kahuna and I

A Remarkable True Hawaiian Story

By: Victoria Kapuni

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The Kahuna and I

A Remarkable True Hawaiian Story

By: Victoria Kapuni

How does a Philadelphia debutant, refined in manners of high society, overcome great personal storms, follow her spiritual path, and find the love of her life (the great, great, great grandson of King Kamehameha III) in Molokai, Hawaii? He knew her spirit even if he could hardly speak her language and had been raised up in a grass shack on the beaches of Oahu, diving off cliff s, living off the ocean, warding off environmental off enders as a political activist protecting the islands and guarding the ways of his people only as a Kahuna can. They wove a rich fabric of diverse colors throughout their marriage by searching out ways to blend their two cultures through their mutual respect and love for one another. They shared and practiced their spiritual knowledge, lived a traditional Hawaiian lifestyle and fought off , like in a Melagro Bean Field War, a Singapore global conglomerate that wanted to develop 200 pristine acres of shoreline that would change the subsistence way of living on this small Hawaiian island. This is their true Hawaiian story.

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264

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BalboaPress

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1452548897

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9781452548890

A Great Big Girl Like Me

The Films of Marie Dressler

By: Victoria Sturtevant

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A Great Big Girl Like Me

The Films of Marie Dressler

By: Victoria Sturtevant

In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252092627

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9780252092626

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Limits and Loopholes

Limits and Loopholes

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The Kahuna and I

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A Great Big Girl Like Me

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