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Dingman is also the Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House and has served on various College committees, including the recent committee to investigate the use and abuse of alcohol at Harvard...
...RICHARD BURR...
...long ago, Republican Richard Burr made his living demonstrating kerosene burners. Now, after five terms in the House of Representatives, he's on his way to the Senate, having learned a thing or two about taking heat in both his previous jobs...
...Burr was born in Virginia, but his family moved to North Carolina when he was a boy. He attended Wake Forest University, then went to work for a wholesaler of outdoor power equipment. In 1992 he made an abrupt career switch. Alarmed, as he tells it, at high taxes, he ran for Congress--and lost. In 1994 he tried again, this time riding the Gingrich tsunami to Capitol Hill...
...dogged congressional foot soldier, Burr worked hard on the Bush Administration's Medicare reform bill, supports medical-malpractice reform and a constitutional ban on gay marriage and has backed positions friendly to drug companies. Such loyalty earned him frequent campaign visits by President Bush and other members of the Administration. Even so, he had to overcome the higher public profile of his Democratic opponent, Erskine Bowles, as well as his own earlier support for free-trade agreements, which never went down well in a state with two big industries--tobacco and textiles--vulnerable to overseas competition. Burr's win flips...