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Coburn's opponent, Democratic Congressman Brad Carson, couldn't pull the same kind of weight, and in fact didn't dare try: most Democrats with a national reputation are radioactive in Oklahoma. Despite Carson's declared support for gun rights, tax cuts, the Iraq war and a constitutional ban on gay marriage, Coburn managed to paint him as a liberal. Once he gets to Washington, Coburn may apply the same label to some of his fellow Republicans: budget deficits drive him crazy, a lonely cause in a Congress that these days winks at trillions in red ink. Given that Coburn...
...CHARGED. Chief Warrant Officers JEFFERSON WILLIAMS and LEWIS WELSHOFER JR., Sergeant First Class WILLIAM SOMMER and Specialist JERRY LOPER; with "murder and dereliction of duty," according to a U.S. Army spokesperson, in the death of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush; in Fort Carson, Colorado. Military prosecutors claim the four soldiers suffocated Mowhoush during an interrogation in Qaim, Iraq, in November 2003, when they allegedly trapped him inside a zipped sleeping bag, rolled him around and sat on his chest. The soldiers face a possible life sentence...
...Institute of Chicago, where you can see some of the world's most famous paintings, including Grant Wood's American Gothic and Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. If it's shopping you crave, check out a classic downtown department store, Carson Pirie Scott or Marshall Field, where if nothing else, you can pick up a box of famous Frango mints...
...Carpenter Center welcomes new faculty with an exhibition of their work. The roster includes Judie Bamber, Christian Bonnefoi, Carson Fox, Frank Gohlke, Jacqueline Hassink, Sue Johnson, Malerie Marder, Lorelei Pepi and Katy Schimert. There will be a reception for the artists Thursday, Sept. 23, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Through Oct. 10. The Carpenter Center...
...style mavens with sample-sale survival skills, tips on befriending shopkeepers and the ABCs of Kabbalah. Sartorially challenged men can pick up Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them (Dutton; 168 pages) by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Carson Kressley. The Fab Fiver has a take on everything from basic questions like boxers or briefs to weightier dilemmas like the blurry line between metrosexual and gay (hint: manicures, metro; French manicures, gay). --By Kate Novack