What is its purpose?
The primary purpose of the fund is to reduce the role of large amounts of private money raised in the presidential campaign and the obligations that are, or can appear to be, associated with those contributions. The system was created in the 1970’s in response to the Watergate scandals that surrounded the Nixon re-election campaign when his campaign committee was found to have illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars from some of the country’s largest corporations. Congress responded by passing sweeping campaign finance reform, which included the presidential public financing system designed to minimize a candidate’s dependence on donations from wealthy special interests. But the presidential public financing system isn’t just designed to stop corruption, or the appearance of corruption. It is also designed to increase competition for candidates who may not have a broad network of large contributors or a large amount of personal wealth, as well as free up time to allow candi
This mailing list provides an English-language forum for discussion of topics related to Hayao Miyazaki, a wonderful storyteller and a director of a number of box-office successes in Japan. This list was created in the United States at Brown University in 1991 to facilitate discussion among fans of Miyazaki’s works. Japanese animation fandom, as with many other special-interest communities, began as small, isolated groups of people who got in touch over the Internet and gradually connected with similar groups all over the United States and around the world. Japanese animation fandom in particular has had the longest Internet presence of all animation fan groups, with rec.arts.anime being the first and oldest running animation-related newsgroup. At first, subscribers were people with interests in comic books and manga (Japanese comics and graphic novels), especially Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Hayao Miyazaki’s epic work, and the small number of films he’d released before 1991: Nausi
