Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky maintains that Pebble's strategy is still its own, and not a direct response to any activity on behalf of potential competitors.
"But does it make it a political activity on behalf of the charity?" Mr. Richardson said the new charity has filed a request with the Internal Revenue Service for tax exempt status, which if granted would prohibit the organization from supporting a political candidate.
"It is almost impossible to register a party or a political movement in Belarus", says my contact, "and there is a law that bans activity on behalf of an unregistered organisation.
"We don't believe there's a depth of activity on behalf of Senator McCain," he concluded, carefully predicting nothing beyond a strong effort to have Virginia prove decisive in the Republican struggle.
According to well connected student politicos at ASU, this is not a concerted effort, but rather independent activity on behalf of a large number of like-minded individuals.
For the next fourteen years, Machiavelli engaged in a flurry of diplomatic activity on behalf of Florence, travelling to the major centers of Italy as well as to the royal court of France and to the imperial curia of Maximilian.
"How much more problematic is the appearance created by such activity on behalf of an independent counsel in a matter as sensitive as the Whitewater case?" Mr. Ray, a resident of Rumson, N.J., is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Robert G. Torricelli, the Democratic incumbent.
'Zealous' is a word that lawyers love, because it seems to authorize the most aggressive activity on behalf of a client.
Prosecutors said the agent was spying, conducting illegal activity on behalf of a foreign country and using forged identity papers -- charges the agent admitted were true.
