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...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...
...Friday, after weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, the United States Senate's temporary majority leader, South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle, and interim minority leader, Mississippi Republican Trent Lott, announced they had reached a power-sharing agreement designed to balance control in the evenly split chamber - and the Senate approved the pact in a voice vote the same day. Meanwhile, across the way, House Republicans were adjusting to another kind of power-sharing - within their own party...
DIED. GEORGE MONTGOMERY, 84, film and TV actor known for cowboy roles in westerns such as The Cisco Kid and the Lady and Dakota Lil; of heart failure; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Married for 19 years to Dinah Shore, Montgomery appeared in more than 85 films...
...current system, the argument goes, and popular vote gains preeminence, the inhabitants of the nation's four or five most populated states might decide presidential elections on their own. And while residents of said states might not have a problem with such an outcome, folks out in North Dakota and Montana might see things a bit differently. Citizens of sparsely populated areas (and the congresspersons who represent them) have grown fond of the electoral system, which affords them a disproportionately loud voice in the voting process. Wyoming, for example, casts the minimum three electoral votes; one for each senator...
Despite a first-place ECAC prediction, St. Lawrence has not been living up to expectations. With only two wins in their pockets, the Saints are currently in a three-game tail spin after suffering defeats at the hands of rival Clarkson and reigning national champion North Dakota...