Word: blancos
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ELECTED. KATHLEEN BLANCO, 60, a Democrat, as Governor of Louisiana; in a runoff election. Currently Lieutenant Governor, she becomes the state's first woman Governor after defeating Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American Republican...
...Governor of full-fledged Indian--and we don't mean Native American--ancestry? In Louisiana's race for Governor, Republican Bobby Jindal, 32, born and raised in Baton Rouge by parents who emigrated from India, is in a surprising dead heat for first place with Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco. Jindal already has a whiz kid's resume: state health secretary, executive director of the national commission on Medicare, president of the University of Louisiana system and a top health-policy adviser to the Bush Administration--all before the age of 30. He has wooed Louisiana's relatively conservative voters...
Jindal's popularity surprises even some old Bush Administration colleagues. "I wished the guy luck, but I never thought he'd go anywhere," says one. If, as expected, he and Blanco finish in the top two spots in this Saturday's primary, they will square off in the November general election. Democrats seem to have an edge, but Jindal could win. If he does, he would be Louisiana's youngest Governor ever--and instantly a national figure in a party eager to show that it can reach out to minorities. --By Matthew Cooper and Paige Bowers
...high school friend in attendance asks me if Benny Blanco is strange. “No more than necessary,” I tell him. “Because he gave me this,” he says, showing me a business card advertising Benny’s services as a therapeutic healer. I answer, “Shit’s pretty complicated right...
...convoy system: Pete’s riding with Northeastern senior Ben Peterson a.k.a. Benny Blanco from the ’Burbs (MC), Berklee College of Music junior Dave Sherman a.k.a. Lethal D (bass) and Luke W. M. White ’03 a.k.a. Fat Luke (percussion). In the other car are Nicholas J. Britell ’03 a.k.a. Dr. ATM (keyboards), Cameron D.E. Kirby ’03 a.k.a. Covex (turntables), Daniel Z. Levine ’03 (manager) and Alan J. Wilkis ’03 a.k.a. Black Orpheus (guitar [he’s Caucasian...