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...Missouri's U.S. Senate candidates to the city's elegant University Club last week. The two played to type: Governor Mel Carnahan, the two-term Democrat, gave an earnest but dust-dry talk about how he supported a genuine patient's bill of rights and his opponent, incumbent John Ashcroft, didn't. The better orator, Ashcroft joked easily and touted his work on cutting back Medicare regulations. Judging by applause, the crowd seemed equally divided...
That's the way it has been statewide in what is arguably the nation's most contentious Senate race. For nearly a year, Carnahan and Ashcroft have been within the margin of error in the polls. That's not surprising. The two popular pols have cast a shadow over Missouri politics for a generation. They've won nine statewide races between them. But the contest is more than a Show Me state battle. Missouri is a microcosm: it has picked the winner in every presidential election this century except one ('56), and is an important battleground in the tight presidential...
Like George W. Bush, Ashcroft is running a race based largely on character. The son of an Assemblies of God minister, Ashcroft, who doesn't drink, has been known for his religiosity. His ads tout his "Missouri Values"--a line that Carnahan and most observers consider an implicit dig lampooning the 66-year-old Governor as an out-of-touch liberal who is close to Bill Clinton. "It really is a perversion," Carnahan told TIME. For his part, Ashcroft, 58, says the line isn't a jab at Carnahan; but when asked by TIME, he won't say whether Carnahan...
...actor was virtually born one: great-nephew of actress Ellen Terry and second cousin of designer Gordon Craig. By 21, in Chekhov and Coward, he was a London fixture. He directed and starred in the renowned 1935 Romeo and Juliet (the cast included Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans and Alec Guinness), advancing Olivier's career by swapping roles (Romeo and Mercutio) in mid-run. Later he championed bold young playwrights, directing Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice and Edward Bond's Bingo...
Still, it's too early to count out the embargo's tenacious Cuban-American lobby. Its chief muscle is in the House, where efforts similar to Ashcroft's have been killed this year. "Trading with the most anti-American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers' emotions," said Jorge Mas, head of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Besides powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms--who tightened the embargo in 1996 after Castro's air force shot down two small U.S. civilian planes near Havana--Mas has two other key allies: presidential contenders George W. Bush...