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While her classmates were shopping for plastic storage bins at Target in August, this freshman trivia phenom was answering questions about Bach, algebra, and Norway, while poking fun at Alex Trebek on national...
...division team of senior Marion Guillaume and sophomore Kerry Anne Bradford finished in the top ten in eight of the day’s fourteen races. Senior Robert McIntosh and sophomore Margaret Wang sailed in the A-division. Considered the tenth best collegiate team in the world in August, the women’s team jumped to third in the September 19 standings. The team’s performance at the Regis Bowl, coupled with the No. 2 U.S. Naval Academy’s eighth place finish this weekend, will give the Crimson the opportunity to move up even further...
...This August, McCaskill proved that she'd learned her lesson. After winning the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, she delivered her victory speech to hundreds of cheering volunteers inside Democratic Party headquarters in Springfield, Missouri's third-largest city, which is deep in the heart of Republican territory and former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's hometown. When McCaskill campaigns in Springfield, she's often followed by Republican protesters who call her a liberal Hillary Clinton wannabe and taunt her with signs reading "New York's Third Senator...
...victory party was only the first step in McCaskill's new rural offensive. She ran her first campaign ads on Springfield TV stations. She's visited conservative southwest Missouri 27 times so far, says spokeswoman Adrianne Marsh. By mid-August, McCaskill had campaigned in 47 of the state's 109 rural counties. Of course her opponent, Republican incumbent Jim Talent, is also running hard in rural areas. Which means that one of this year's biggest Senate races will be decided in the smallest places, like Fairdealing, Missouri, population...
...around 40%. In the biggest statewide issue this fall, Talent opposes a proposed state constitutional amendment to keep stem cell research legal in Missouri, even though the amendment enjoys a 62% approval rating according to the most recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll. Still, the latest polls, from late August, found Talent and McCaskill locked in a statistical dead heat, with Talent leading 46% to McCaskill...