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...race for 2008 is well underway and Republicans, lacking a sitting vice-president who wants to run or an obvious heir apparent, have what might be their most interesting contest in decades. The two candidates with the highest name recognition and popularity right now, Arizona Senator John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani, will have difficulty winning the Republican primaries because of their moderate views on many social issues. That's created a huge opening for a candidate who social conservatives will embrace. "That's the most visible and active constituency in the party," says Jack Pitney...
...power plants. According to the final report of the 9/11 commission, Atta, pilot of the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, "had considered targeting a nuclear facility he had seen during familiarization flights near New York." At the dawn of the Iraq war in 2003, Arizona National Guard troops were ordered to the nation's largest nuclear-reactor complex, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, after U.S. intelligence heard that sleeper cells of Iraqi terrorists might attack...
...DIED. GEORGE MIKAN, 80, pro basketball's first powerful "big man," whose aggressive play and graceful, ambidextrous hook shots elevated the sport's profile during the 1940s and '50s and led the Minneapolis Lakers to five championships in the team's first six years; in Scottsdale, Arizona. At a time when towering players were thought to be insufficiently nimble, the bespectacled, 2.08 m DePaul graduate single-handedly dominated the newly formed National Basketball Association, drawing crowds, forcing the league to establish new rules (the original 1.83 m key was expanded to thwart his offensive dominance), and once prompting New York...
...Fullerton and Arizona delegations regrouped from tailgating to watch the Goodwin Field nightcap, the handful of Harvard fans present—parents, relatives, friends—casually emptied the stadium...
With the loss, the Crimson will play Missouri, losers of a 5-3 decision against Arizona in the afternoon, at 4 p.m. on Saturday...