Word: dakotas
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...calculations are being made months before the first vote has been cast, and the national polls suggest that most Americans haven't given the race much thought at all. It's not until Feb. 3--with seven contests in South Carolina, Delaware, Missouri, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and North Dakota--that the Democratic race will begin to take the pulse of the candidates' national appeal. Four days later comes the big state of Michigan, starting off a procession of primaries that leads to the biggest ones of all, New York and California, on March...
While this is the first year that two Harvardians have competed against each other, Redd and Gray follow a tradition of state-level victory in the last decade that includes three Miss Massachusetts contestants, a Miss North Dakota and a Miss Arizona...
While this is the first year that two Harvard students have competed against each other, Redd and Gray follow in a Crimson tradition of state-level victory in the last decade that includes three Miss Massachusetts contestants and a Miss North Dakota. Last year, Miss Arizona Laura M. Lawless ’00 reached the top 15, losing the crown to future HLS student Harold...
...success in recruiting strong candidates. But G.O.P. recruiting efforts for the 2004 election are running into considerably more trouble. In half a dozen Senate races thus far, Republicans have failed to get their first choices to run. Former G.O.P. Governors Jim Edgar of Illinois and Ed Schafer of North Dakota begged off Senate races, as did Governor Mike Huckabee and former Congressman Asa Hutchinson, the Republicans' best hopes for unseating Senator Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas. Representative Jennifer Dunn, the G.O.P.'s first choice to challenge Senator Patty Murray in Washington, and HUD Secretary Mel Martinez, a party favorite in Florida...
INDICTED. WILLIAM JANKLOW, 63, Republican U.S. Congressman from South Dakota, on charges of felony second-degree manslaughter, for allegedly speeding through a stop sign and killing a motorcyclist; in Flandreau, S.D. If convicted, the former four-term Governor could face 10 years in prison and the end of his storied political career...