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...other first-term Republicans in the farm belt have found themselves in dead-even races. Idaho's flamboyant Steve Symms, who has taken heat for the state's economic decline as well as his reputation for a fast-paced life- style, is being challenged by Democratic Governor John Evans, a folksy moderate. In North Dakota, Senator Mark Andrews blew a 12-point lead over Democratic Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad when he erroneously claimed that grain prices had been rising and took credit for the nonexistent increase. In Missouri, the acrimonious race between former Republican Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond and Democratic...
...similarly engaged with Brian Bosworth. Events in college football have seldom been so clear cut. Bosworth is an unruly linebacker who prunes his head like a boxwood bush and streaks it with rainbows to spell out individuality. Even as its children have taken to emulating him, the Oklahoma Bible Belt has somehow been able to rationalize Bosworth, to forgive the occasional "loogie" he talks of spitting into opponents' faces, and to disregard some other troubling things he says, like "I used to beat my sisters with whips...
...Catliff, with all that international experience under his belt, it didn't really seem like much of a challange...
When Farber traded in his coach's whistle for law school casebooks in June, Harvard hired Wayne Lem as his replacement. Lem comes to Harvard with 10 years of experience at Boston College under his belt. While at B.C., Lem built up a strong volleyball program--and he expects to do no less at Harvard...
John Garang is seated in a dry riverbed, under the sweeping branches of an acacia tree. Around his belt, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), American-educated leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) wears a knife and a 9-mm automatic pistol; his thick hands are clasped around the stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east...