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Strange bedfellows reject the soft-money mattress

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Last week's blockbuster America Online deal isn't the only shocking announcement Time Warner Inc. has made lately.

Last November, the politically wired entertainment conglomerate announced it would stop making so-called "soft money" donations. In the last election cycle the company and its top lobbyist had given $471,000 to national Republican and Democratic party committees. Through November 1999, they had kick

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