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...tournament, held in Montgomery, Ala., draws some of the elite teams in the country for its four-day run, and for the second straight year, the Crimson (7-2, 0-0 Ivy) opened the event against the Blue Raiders...
Kerry's lackluster years in the senate show that he would be the worst kind of President--drab, passive, waffling and doing whatever his liberal Democratic friends in Congress tell him to do. DEX NILSSON Huntsville, Ala...
Although no state has yet begun to do that, two local governments--Springfield, Mass., and Montgomery, Ala.--are buying drugs and saving millions. Some two dozen other cities and states have begun efforts to link up with Canadian suppliers. "Cash-strapped state and local governments are looking for relief in a logical place," says Representative Jo Ann Emerson, a Missouri Republican. Further fueling the states' animosity toward the feds, the FDA has threatened legal action against state and local governments that pursue the Canadian option, thereby increasing the likelihood of another congressional showdown...
...influence—real or imagined—was widespread before the signing of the BCRA. Companies gave most to the very politicians who sat on the committees charged with regulating them. And they spent heavily on the campaigns of their strongest political advocates. Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., a recipient of over $74,000 of auto industry donations from 1995 to 2000, led the fight against new rollover potential ratings for SUVs: a cause he dropped only after the Firestone-Ford debacle brought rollover tragedies to the forefront. When the House was still considering whether to fund...
DIED. JAKE HESS, 76, Southern gospel pioneer and early influence on Elvis Presley; in Opelika, Ala. The youngest of 12 children, Hess began singing in 1948 and starred in the seminal Christian music group the Statesmen Quartet. As a teenager in Memphis, Presley often attended Statesmen shows, and Hess later sang backup on the King's albums...