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Running was too big a risk--for Smith and for the family's aura of invincibility. (Only one family member, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, has ever lost a general election.) Smith is the fifth member of the clan this year to float a trial balloon, then pop it. Almost as many have entered races to stay. Four Kennedys by birth or marriage are running--two for Governor, two for Congress. Should they all prevail, there will be five family members in federal or statewide office--the most ever--including patriarch Ted Kennedy, who won an easy re-election last year...
...WELTY through a little shopping mall. It was her birthday, April 13. There was a surprise party waiting at a bookstore down the way. She was 86. As we walked rather slowly along the glass storefronts, we came to where a wide, smiling, pink-faced man was inflating colorful balloons. As each balloon filled and fattened, the cylinder emitted quite a loud whoosh of air. Eudora looked about to find the sound. "Balloons," I said. I had her hand. "Someone's apparently having a do." "Oh," she said. Those luminous, pale blue eyes igniting, her magical face suppressing once again...
...spring day I was walking with EUDORA WELTY through a little shopping mall. She was 86. As we walked rather slowly along the glass storefronts, we came to where a wide, smiling, pink-faced man was inflating colorful balloons. As each balloon filled and fattened, the cylinder emitted a quite loud whoosh of air. Eudora looked about to find the sound. "Balloons," I said. "Oh," she said, those luminous pale blue eyes igniting. "I just thought it was someone who saw me, sighing...
...UPSIDE] Keeps the conservative wing of Bush's party happy--Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott and others were riled by the amnesty trial balloon the White House floated last week...
...risks. If the Senator is seen as urging Bush to break his campaign promise to end the funding, he could suffer for it later at the hands of Republicans angered at the President?s choice but helpless to oppose it publicly. And if he is acting as the test balloon for the decision Bush has all but made, Frist could bear the brunt of criticism from research opponents...