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...DIED. BYRON DE LA BECKWITH, 80, white supremacist who escaped justice for 31 years before being convicted in 1994 of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers; in Jackson, Mississippi. Two all-white, all-male juries failed to reach a verdict when he was twice tried in 1964, despite the fact that his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. The case was reopened twelve years ago and a jury of eight blacks and four whites convicted him in 1994. He was serving a life sentence at the time of his death...
...leaders are confident they've locked up their party's 50 votes in favor of Ashcroft, no one is absolutely sure how many Democrats are considering giving him the green light - although West Virginia's Robert Byrd, Georgia's Zell Miller and North Dakota's Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan have all expressed their intentions to confirm. One Democrat on the committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, doesn't need the extra week to make up her mind about Ashcroft; she has already announced her opposition to the nominee, citing his "ultra-right-wing" record on hot-button issues like...
...change in Administrations hasn't stopped some politicians, including Republican John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, who strongly opposes United's takeover of US Airways, from mounting a bipartisan effort to halt the deals. Democrat Byron Dorgan of North Dakota last week urged the Justice Department to "do its job and promote competition in the airline industry, not preside over its demise...
...Byron E. Boone...
...descent starts to steepen, some of the passengers are starting to scream (including a few Fed governors, according to Monday's Wall Street Journal). Last week, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) implored the Fed to cut rates and avoid a recession before it was "too late." And a sizable minority of Wall Street went into Tuesday thinking Greenspan should have cut rates by a quarter-point, as a Christmas gift to the markets and as an acknowledgment that...