Greetings from M Street!We are well into the 2004 presidential election year and the M Street office is bustling bus·tle 1 intr. & tr.v. bus·tled, bus·tling, bus·tles To move or cause to move energetically and busily. n. Excited and often noisy activity; a stir. with activities related to the 2004 elections. In addition, with the League Convention imminent, we are busy making sure that everything runs smoothly and that this biennial gathering of our membership is a memorable one. (See Good Bytes, p. 17, for instructions on accessing convention information and on ways to join us online if you cannot be here in Washington, DC.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There will be some special events at Convention 2004. One will be the presentation to the League of the "2004 Civic Change Award" by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. The League is the only organization ever to receive this award, which is to be presented by Alma Powell Alma Powell, born Alma Vivian Johnson in Birmingham, Alabama, is an audiologist and the wife of military and political figure Colin Powell, whom she married in 1962. She is the mother of former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell. on behalf of the Pew Partnership. In addition, Washington journalist Helen Thomas Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is a noted news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps. She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). will be the banquet speaker, and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) will address the Monday plenary plenary adj. full, complete, covering all matters, usually referring to an order, hearing or trial. PLENARY. Full, complete. 2. . Education Fund and Advocacy Department news that were previously in this section are now in a new section of the Voter, "League Matters." The new Presidential Selection Position and concurrence CONCURRENCE, French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, Whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Dict. de Jur. h.t. results are on p. 13 of that section. Below is news from our other departments, and you will meet the Education Fund staff. I look forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones at the Convention! |
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