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...important victory in Virginia, when former governor George Allen unseated Democratic incumbent Chuck Robb. Both candidates spent millions campaigning, as Republicans felt Robb was the most vulnerable Democrat up for reelection...
Juniors Julie Epton, who averaged nearly 10 points and six rebounds per game last season, and Jessica Allen will bolster the frontcourt alongside Caramanico...
Virginia is a crucial race for both the Democrats and the Republicans. GOP candidate George Allen leads incumbent Sen. Chuck Robb in the polls, but the polls have vacillated between the two candidates in the last few days...
...invented comedy bits that others copied (Allen's Answer Man become Carson's Carnac the Magnificent). He discovered or introduced talents like Don Knotts, Bill Dana and Tom Poston, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. He gave Elvis Presley his first national TV exposure, even before Ed Sullivan. He was, as the obits reminded us, a renaissance man who played jazz piano, composed thousands of songs (but only one hit, "This Could Be the Start of Something Big"), wrote a couple of dozen books and even dabbled in politics. Though a lifelong liberal - a union man to the end, opponent...
...rich and powerful. In California, for example, it takes at least $1 million to secure an initiative's spot on a ballot, which means special-interest groups like the teachers' unions (which fight tooth and nail to defeat voucher initiatives), as well as wealthy individuals like Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen (who spent $8 million to garner support for public funding of a new Seattle football stadium), have become a significant force behind the seemingly endless array of propositions littering state ballots nationwide...