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"I know that there is a God, and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready."
John F. Kennedy, in a note written on June 5, 1961, after his unsuccessful meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, found by his secretary and made public just last week

"I have become the go-to guy on genitalia."
Rep. Barney Frank, noting the media's tendency to ask him for comments on the Starr investigation and Trent Lott's views on gays


The Scoop: California -- Corporate Power Is Backing Hispanic Power

(TIME, August 3) -- When A. JERROLD PERENCHIO, an Italian-American Republican, poured $1.5 million into fighting California's anti-bilingual-education initiative two months ago, it seemed an obvious ploy: Perenchio, as head of Univision, the major Spanish-language TV network, was seeking to curry favor with his audience. But Perenchio wasn't alone. Millions of dollars are now being poured into pro-Latino causes by such corporations as AT&T, GTE, Miller Brewing and Kaiser Permanente. One grass-roots group, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, has received a $500,000 pledge from State Farm Insurance (to be paid over five years), and its recent "Feel the Power" convention was partly sponsored by ARCO (a company that was boycotted by Hispanics in 1994 after it supported Governor Pete Wilson, backer of the anti-immigrant Proposition 187). With Hispanics at more than a quarter of California's population, these companies are seeking goodwill, but the impact of corporate generosity goes beyond customer loyalty. The funding of Latino registration and get-out-the-vote efforts is likely to benefit Democrats, particularly gubernatorial candidate Gray Davis, who is running on a ticket with Lieutenant Governor candidate CRUZ BUSTAMANTE, the first Latino speaker of the California assembly. An estimated 600,000 new Hispanic voters have registered in California since Prop 187, and, for the most part, they are not voting Republican.

--By Margot Hornblower/Los Angeles

Contest Corner

Calling all humorists! Here's your challenge in our first-ever Contest of the Week: Can you top Michael Pappas? Last week the New Jersey Congressman sang an ode to Kenneth Starr on the House floor to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

An excerpt:

When subpoenas and lies are gone,
When obstruction shines upon,
Then you throw your trump cards down,
Twinkle, twinkle all brought down.
Twinkle, twinkle Kenneth Starr,
Now we see how brave you are!

--To enter, stop booing, adapt a nursery rhyme of your choice and compose a stanza on your favorite newsmaker. Fax your entry to 212-467-1010, e-mail it to Letters@time.com or mail it to TIME Notebook Contest #1, Room 2321B, Time & Life Building, New York, N.Y. 10020. Watch this space for the winning entry.

In TIME This Week

Cover Date: August 3, 1998

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Shining A Light On Abuse
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Notebook: Barney Frank Is The Point Man


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