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...Crimson holds its destiny in its own hands, and if it can send the Bears into hibernation early for the winter, the Ivy League championship and the automatic NCAA tournament bid that comes with it will belong solely to Harvard...
...party-building in the next four years, the Reform Party could become a perpetual thorn in the side of the Republicans and Democrats, even without competitive candidates for national office. Much could be learned from Pat Robertson, who turned the mailing list generated by his failed 1988 presidential bid into the powerful Christian Coalition. What's next? A slate of credible Reform House and Senate candidates in 1998 would build a more effective party machine and dispel the cult-of-personality image as Perot's captive audience. If major party candidates find themselves courting the centrist Reform vote...
After losing the primary to Brady before redistricting, Republican Gene Fontenot has decided to take another shot at this seat. A hospital owner who spent nearly $2.4 million in 1994 on a House bid in another district, he's basing his campaign on a plan to tax sales rather than income. Fontenot, who's never held office, says common sense is what's needed in Congress. He thinks abortion should be illegal in all cases and strongly supports the Contract with America...
...second bid to unseat Frank Wolf, Weinberg says he offers voters a choice--but he refuses to answer the TIME/CQ questionnaire because it focuses on "what a candidate would have done in the past," which he considers too hypothetical. Not abstractly, the newly retired lawyer must convince voters to turn out an incumbent famous for constituent services and put in his place a precinct committeeman who has never won an elective office...
West, an admissions counselor at the University of Wisconsin for the past 12 years, is running a rematch of his 1994 bid against incumbent David Obey. He's proposing vast government reforms, including audits of all government departments, limiting congressional perks and passing term limits. His opponent has been a political institution here since 1969, but West has found some chinks in his armor--he won 46% of the vote in 1994, the highest of any of Obey's challengers...