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...World Championships as well, but her margin of victory yesterday was much more secure than that of her tense 15-14 win in the previous title match. “She destroyed her competition, winning the gold medal bout by a resounding score,” said Anne Austin, co-captain of the Women’s Fencing team. “It is very hard to repeat,” Brand said. “A lot of the people she fences at that level are already professionals, so it’s quite remarkable.” This...
...learn about the consortium. The largest of its member firms, Julius Blum Inc., an Austrian-based maker of hinge, drawer and rollout systems for cabinetry, has already invested some $30 million in machinery for the training program and hired 26 of its graduates. But Blum apprentice trainer Tony Austin says the company still faces an uphill battle educating students, parents and - yes - school counselors about the value of apprenticing. Says Austin: "Recruiting is one of our biggest problems...
...Austin, Texas, the political consultant Mark McKinnon watched the Gore and Kerry campaigns from a unique perspective. He had spent his life as a Democrat and now he was working, as a matter of personal loyalty, for his friend George W. Bush. Very much to his surprise-and to his wife's horror-McKinnon was in the midst of a conversion experience, not so much to the Republican philosophy but to the Republican way of doing campaigns. It was so much simpler. Maybe it was because Republicans were more businesslike and saw their consultants as employees, rather than saviors...
...DeLay's decision over the weekend, and his mayoral reelection website was pulled down for a redesign immediately after the DeLay announcement. Other insiders said they had been hearing rumors about DeLay's tight poll numbers as far back as December. Central Texas Republican Congressman John Carter told the Austin American-Statesman that a week ago DeLay had mentioned his "troubling" poll numbers that showed him in a neck-and-neck battle with his likely opponent in November, former Democratic Congressman Nick Lampson...
...Alexandria, Virginia, will not effect his trial on campaign finance irregularities. (His move out of the state is how DeLay is making himself ineligible for reelection.) "Mr. DeLay's political status has nothing to do with the criminal charges against him, and this changes nothing," Earle told the Austin American-Statesman Monday night. On the other hand, the criminal charges may have a lot to do with his political status, and as the political jockeying already under way in Texas makes abundantly clear, DeLay's exit will change everything...