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  Bob Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graham dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on October 6, 2003 and announced his retirement from the Senate on November 3, 2003.
Graham announced his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2004 election on the Democratic ticket on February 27, 2003.
The Graham dairy in Miami Lakes was redeveloped into a residential and commercial community during the 1970s and 1980s, under the leadership of Bob Graham's brother William.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Graham   (990 words)

  
 Bill Graham (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Honourable William C. (Bill) Graham, PC, MP, Q.C. B.A.(Hon.), LL.B., (born March 17, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec) is Canada's current Minister of National Defence.
Although Graham's riding includes Toronto's Church and Wellesley gay village, and he consequently has a gay-friendly voting record in the House of Commons, Graham has never publicly acknowledged the Frank rumours in any way.
In the cabinet shuffle that followed the 2004 Canadian election, Graham was moved to the Defence portfolio.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Graham_%28politician%29   (523 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bill Graham (politician)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Honourable William C. (Bill) Graham, PC, MP, Q.C., B.A.(Hon.), LL.B., D.U., (born March 17, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec) is Canada's current Minister of National Defence.
The Minister of National Defence (French: Ministre de la Défense nationale) is the Canadian politician within the Cabinet of Canada responsible for the Department of National Defence which oversees the military of Canadas Canadian Forces.
A bill can be one of paper documents used as currency notes in British English see Banknote.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bill-Graham-(politician)   (479 words)

  
 Perspective: The spotlight is on Bob Graham
Bob Graham is leaving a committee room that had been packed with journalists listening to him explain the Senate Democrats' Medicare prescription drug bill.
Graham and U.S. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, are leading the joint House-Senate committee investigating how the terrorist attacks on America happened, and how they might be prevented in the future.
Graham shrugged off the criticism about being too close to the intelligence communities or having too superficial an understanding of the issues.
www.sptimes.com /2002/06/16/Perspective/The_spotlight_is_on_B.shtml   (960 words)

  
 Bill Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bill Graham - Canada's Minister of National Defence.
Bill Graham (1931 - 1991) - U.S. music promoter.
Billy Graham - former professional wrestler nicknamed "Superstar" Billy Graham.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Graham   (103 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bill Graham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Graham grasped the potential: something electrifying was beginning to happen in San Francisco, and the scene lacked only a focused, business-oriented mind to harness its power.
Graham died in October, 1991, when a helicopter in which he was a passenger crashed into an electrical tower as he was leaving a concert.
Bill Graham presents his first show, a benefit for the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bill-Graham   (280 words)

  
 private bill
A private bill is the term used for legislation that originates from a particular member of a legislature or parliament or from a member of the public.
Private bills developed in the United Kingdom as a means of obtaining redress from a specific wrong or obtaining a benefit that was not otherwise available through statute or the common law.
The kinds of private bills that are still introduced include grants of citizenship to individuals who are otherwise ineligible for normal visa processing; alleviation of tax liability; armed services decorations and veteran benefits.
www.fact-library.com /private_bill.html   (363 words)

  
 Polaris Institute - Corporate-Security State Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Graham has vigorously defended the American plan to build the missile shield and brings with him his experience as foreign affairs minister.
Graham's views on missile defence are clear, some analysts question where he stands on other issues facing the military.
Graham will have to deal with is the announcement of the winner of the $3-billion maritime helicopter contract.
www.polarisinstitute.org /polaris_project/corp_security_state/Opinions_interviews/july_21_2004_PRINT.htm   (597 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Likelihood of Graham as V.P. falls
Graham's dimming prospects can be attributed partly to events outside his control that occurred within the past two weeks.
Graham is 63 years old, although he looks younger, and would be the oldest of four men on the two tickets.
If Graham were Gore's running mate, the state GOP chairman said, the contest would boil down to a battle between Graham and Gov. Jeb Bush.
www.sptimes.com /News/080200/Worldandnation/Likelihood_of_Graham_.shtml   (985 words)

  
 Billy Graham - General Teachings/Activities
Graham, an ordained Southern Baptist (SBC), heads a $100 million a year evangelistic empire, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) (Graham is now paid $101,250 per year with a $33,750 housing allowance.) The BGEA also operates a 1,500 acre training center, "The Cove," located in Asheville, North Carolina.
Graham's call to "receive Christ," or "make the step of faith," or "come to Christ tonight," is general enough to allow Catholic leaders to insert their sacramental gospel into it.
Graham said that Kim had given the Graham party "a very lavish luncheon" during which he was "very warm and friendly." But, said Graham, he had no idea why he was invited to North Korea.
www.rapidnet.com /~jbeard/bdm/exposes/graham/general.htm   (10470 words)

  
 Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > Evangelist Billy Graham Declines Invitation for London Crusade
The exciting vision of Billy Graham holding a crusade in London this autumn has faded away as the evangelist declined the invitation from UK evangelicals after much prayerful consideration, a press release from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) revealed yesterday.
Graham’s last crusade to the UK was held in 1989.
At the end of the press release, it was stated that Graham will continue his ministry of evangelism and resume work writing several books and contributing to other special projects he has begun in recent years.
www.christiantoday.com /news/missions/evangelist.billy.graham.declines.invitation.for.london.crusade/419.htm   (704 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
GRAHAM: We're still talking about Clinton, and the first thing we're going to talk about is whether or not the poll done by his pollster should be believed.
GRAHAM: The reason we have an explosion in the Mideast is Bill Clinton wanted a legacy beyond impeachment, to the point that the two parties were put in a position where they couldn't deliver.
GRAHAM: I think part of it was that a lot of African-Americans saw Bill Clinton a victim of maybe zealots like me. I don't know, I can't explain it.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0107/30/cf.00.html   (3863 words)

  
 "Swing Conservative" by Geoff Earle
Neither is Graham a maverick like McCain, someone hated by some of his GOP colleagues for his tendency, as one Republican senator described it to me, to “mount the parapet and wave the flag and take the pin out of the grenade.” Rather, most GOP senators seem genuinely to like and respect Graham.
Graham stood out among the crowd, earning a reputation for bipartisanship and was among a group of several members who explored whether it would be possible to avoid a trial by reaching a settlement.
Graham's reasoning was that all kinds of people might be tempted to lie about their sex lives in a civil case.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2005/0504.earle.html   (4880 words)

  
 Running Scared (washingtonpost.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
There is a theory that Graham's scary new persona was born of opportunism, that he has seized on terrorism as a hot-button issue to ride to the White House -- just as then-Sen. John F. Kennedy exploited a dubious "missile gap" in 1960.
Graham was the only presidential candidate to vote against war in Iraq, prompting speculation that he was maneuvering to run as a dove in a Democratic primary.
Bill Graham, Bob's older half-brother, recalls picking up the phone one night to hear a man growl that his dad would be dead by noon.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A63703-2003May1.html   (1572 words)

  
 El-Mohtar:"The Blind"
Graham’s sins, when it comes to the Palestinians, are commensurate with his vast knowledge about their tragedy and about international law.
Graham’s reaction if a judge were to say when sentencing a mugger who had attacked and robbed Mr.
Graham: “We want to ensure that the mugger acts in a way that is conducive to public safety on the streets of Toronto.” The farce goes on.
www.canpalnet-ottawa.org /El-Mohtar2.html   (1188 words)

  
 FalunInfo.Net - TS: Canada slams Hong Kong bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Graham said he remained troubled by the legislation and urged Hong Kong to exercise its full autonomy rather than merely accept what is handed down in Beijing.
Graham said he was unconcerned by Beijing's warnings that foreigners should not meddle in Hong Kong's deliberations because these are "China's internal affair," as a spokesperson said last week.
Graham cited the pleas of prominent opposition politician Martin Lee, founder of the Democratic Party here, in urging Hong Kong's largely unelected government to embrace democracy as the best safeguard against potential abuses.
www.faluninfo.net /displayAnArticle.asp?ID=7517   (535 words)

  
 FREEMASONS PAY TRIBUTE TO BILLY GRAHAM
Bill and Hillary gave a luncheon for Graham along with a few of the Crusade's strongest supporters; leaders of the state were invited too, including former governor Orval Faubus.
Graham said Bill and Hillary were leading us in the direction of goodness and righteousness -- and that he would make a great evangelist -- yet Clinton was recently photographed at a Democratic fund-raiser with Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy.
Graham have an opinion of him based almost entirely on the short, concise message he delivers at Crusades; however, once you examine Billy Graham outside the planned and staged Crusades, an entirely different picture emerges of the man and his ministry.
www.cuttingedge.org /news/n1742.cfm   (9531 words)

  
 Dominion Weblog: Close Encounters of the Intransigent Politician Kind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I'm at McGill's "Canada's Place in the World" conference, where a few Canadian foreign policy bigwigs (Bill Graham, Pierre Pettigrew, Aileen Caroll) and a lot of fresh-faced students are discussing, well, Canada's place in the world.
Bill Graham (defence minister) is speaking later this afternoon, but I'm going to go to a press conference about Palestinian refugees, so I'll probably miss it.
I asked Graham if he thought that the Canadian situation would be affected by human rights reports about the abuses of the Haitian National Police.
dominionpaper.ca /weblog/2005/02/close_encounters_of_the_intransigent_politician_kind.html   (1291 words)

  
 WHO IS BOB GRAHAM? A Tax and Spend Liberal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Graham “left the prison system so neglected that a flood of early releases for inmates was unleashed.
Graham pushed through a $230 million tax hike to fund a massive “Education Reform Act,” promising merit pay for teacher and academic excellence for students.
Graham is one of the sneakiest stonecold leftists in the RAT cult.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/894608/posts?page=1   (4794 words)

  
 William H. Graham - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Drummer William H. Graham is one of the only recorded musicians with this name to use the formal version of the first half; that and sporadic use of an initial may have helped him avoid confusion with many other people in the entertainment business named Bill Graham.
Graham, singer and guitarist Paul Painter and lead guitarist Chris Hoffee number three of the band's players who have been friends since middle school.
Further discussion of this situation can be found in bandleader and Texas politician Hank Gonzalez's research on the relationship between miles driven and people in attendance at public events.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,535494,00.html   (417 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Graham, a fourth-term U.S. House member from Seneca, is a co-sponsor of the House version of the legislation.
Lindsey Graham is the ultimate Washington politician and this is just another ugly example of how he prefers to play politics than get things done.
The stalemate over labor rights is blocking a decisive Senate vote on a bill that would merge 22 agencies and transfer 170,000 employees, including 43,000 covered by union agreements, into a new Cabinet department charged with protecting Americans from terrorism at home, The Associated Press reported.
greenvilleonline.com /news/2002/09/27/2002092729155.htm   (461 words)

  
 The Integrity Project - Graham Lea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It’s not that I have to agree with what he says; if Bill Vanderzam says something that I feel he believes in, and he's sticking with it, then I sort of feel that Bill Vanderzam has integrity.
A politician told me the other day, "You know," he said, "they say that I got into politics because I was on the take; they say I got into politics because I was only thinking of myself; they say I only got into politics for my own self-fulfillment.
Graham Lea wouldn't be here, sharing this evening with you, if I weren't a politician, so I sup-pose I should say a few words about it.
www.islandnet.com /jbanks/Integrity%20Project/Integrity%20Project%20-%20Graham%20Lea.html   (2466 words)

  
 Speech by the Honourable Bill Graham >
Tip O'Neill, the famous American politician, observed some time ago that "all politics is local." Author and journalist Thomas Friedman, recently wrote, "All politics is global." Both observations are right in their time; what is certainly true today is that factors that are global in nature have an unprecedented impact on domestic politics.
We know that domestic solutions to problems here in Canada are only effective when conceived in their global context.
In all this there must necessarily be a certain tension between the role of the journalist and the politician.
www.cjfe.org /eng/awards/graham.html   (1343 words)

  
 Canada balks at joining US war on Iraq
Politicians from both countries routinely describe the other as their country’s closest neighbour and best friend.
And Chrétien and Foreign Affairs Minster Bill Graham have made it clear that they do not want to be drawn into any discussion of the legality of a US-British invasion of Iraq.
Speaking to reporters Monday evening, Graham said lawyers and specialists in international relations would debate the legality of a war for years to come, but the government had based its decision on Canada’s national interests.
www.wsws.org /articles/2003/mar2003/cana-m20.shtml   (1113 words)

  
 Edwards-Graham ticket would frighten Republicans
Edwards is Bill Clinton- like he is a centrist in leftist liberals clothing.
Concerning Fla and Graham, There is a sitting Governor down there who has the same last name asthe President who won a historical second term with a landlside against the full might of the democrap party.
Graham is more left of the middle as well.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/818241/posts   (2906 words)

  
 CBC News:Graham calls for Tamil rebels to return to peace talks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
COLOMBO - Canadian Foreign Minister Bill Graham is calling on Sri Lankan rebels to return to peace talks.
Graham is the first Canadian foreign minister to visit Sri Lanka in 20 years.
He is on a three-day official tour, during which he will meet with government leaders as well as representatives of other political parties.
cbc.ca /stories/2003/10/15/srilanka031015   (190 words)

  
 RFE/RL Newsline, 03-08-28
According to Pryanishnikov, "no major politician in the city will be offended" because "all of the people named are well known and to some extent favorites for local residents." According to the list, Nobel Prize laureate and State Duma Deputy Zhores Alferov (Communist) will head the city's Science and Higher Education Committee.
Politicians in Makhachkala and Moscow lauded Gusaev's work during his 10-year stint as minister to maintain interethnic harmony in Daghestan and to crack down on Islamic fundamentalism.
Graham also was quoted as saying that Canada will continue to try to have Kazemi's remains returned to Canada in accordance with her family's wishes.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2003/03-08-28.rferl.html   (9263 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
CJC is seeking amendments to the Criminal Code to beef up the government's recently passed anti-terrorism law, Bill C-36.
The law considers attacks on houses of worship and cemeteries to be hate crimes, but CJC would like the law expanded to include attacks on communal property, schools and community centres.
At foreign affairs, now held by Toronto MP Bill Graham, Congress's agenda includes anti-terrorism measures, recognition of Israel's Magen David Adom, anti-Semitism in Europe and the former Soviet republics, and the use of international forums to attack Israel.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/02/jan24-02/front2.asp   (1041 words)

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