Word: beate
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Chicago politics may look just as slippery. Virginia politics is certainly more fractious. But for sheer, lip-smacking fun, there's still nothing that can beat Louisiana's. For nearly a quarter-century, Edwin W. Edwards has been much of the reason why. In four terms as Governor, Edwards, who was tried twice for fraud and racketeering but never convicted, who ran up huge gambling debts while Governor and who squired so many young women while still in his first marriage that he was dubbed "the Silver Zipper," has made Baton Rouge the undisputed capital of rascally political folklore...
...with some preliminary understandings of their own. One was that Edwards must have figured that voters were losing patience with his adventures along the frontiers of ethical conduct. Though never found guilty of any crime, he has been the subject of at least 20 criminal investigations and has twice beat charges that he tried, while out of office, to rig the state's program to certify hospitals -- pocketing $1.9 million in the process. During Edwards' 1991 campaign, a closely watched race against former Klansman David Duke, one of his supporters' favorite bumper stickers read, Vote for the Crook...
...nation's capital 15 years ago, and quickly mastered the balancing act required of any Washington correspondent. As TIME's Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame puts it, "He manages to ask tough questions and write critical stories while maintaining the respect of the top sources on his beat...
...Princeton has been getting a lot better each year," senior sprinter Jen Chertow says. "It's almost like they've come out of nowhere to beat us. Now they are team to beat...
...After that, we were determined to beat them," junior Deb Kory said earlier in the season. "For the rest of the regular season we were just sort of waiting for Eastern when we would play them again. That was going to be the showdown...