Word: chattanooga
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...become the first black Southerners have freely elected to the Senate-have included jungle drums beating in the background, blonde bimbos whispering "call me" and questions about his faith and family. Meanwhile, ads against Corker have questioned the Republican's real estate deals, his success as mayor of Chattanooga and his involvement in the hiring of illegal aliens by a subcontractor working for him. Coming into the final days of a race too close to call the mud is pouring down, the money is flowing and the stars are being trotted out at a breakneck pace...
...part, Ford is trying to ignore the mudslinging, making just one comment about the racial undertones in the Republican ads when he told the Chattanooga Times-Free Press that the television ad "injects a little race into this thing, the way they have me pictured." He also refuses to discuss his family. Neither criticizing or defending them, Ford says only that he loves them but is not responsible for their flaws...
...G.O.P.'s strongest choice to run against Ford. The contrast in their life stories is striking: before entering politics, Corker built a real estate and construction fortune from a company he started with the $8,000 he had saved working as a construction superintendent. But his record as Chattanooga mayor also creates some potential vulnerabilities...
...financial cost to schools when the beverage spigot is partly closed. The deals that administrators strike with drinkmakers often go to pay for such comparative luxuries as athletic programs and yearbooks; if the kids don't take to the healthier drinks, revenue will fall. For Brainard High School in Chattanooga, Tenn., vending-machine sales have meant an annual cash infusion of as much as $17,000. "I think the deal will hurt us," says school bookkeeper Robin Cavin. "We pay the insurance for athletics out of that. Who will replace it when it's gone...
...gunmen strafing them as they stood watch. However, American officers say the men they ended up fighting weren't mere homeowners. They used the fire and movement techniques of trained soldiers. "These guys who stood and fought were not just neighborhood types," says Markos, a steely artillery officer from Chattanooga, Tenn. Intelligence officer Capt. Joshua Brandon notes that "a lot of [insurgent] command and logistics comes out of here" and that, along with posters for the locals who died in the fight, "we see lists of martyrs who were not local residents...