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Challenges in eight states left only one major incumbent defeated. South Dakota Governor Walter Miller lost his job to former Governor William Janklow, who will now lead the state Republican ticket. In California, state treasurer Kathleen Brown, the daughter and sister of two former Democratic Governors, won the right to run against Republican Governor Pete Wilson; in the state's Senate race, Republicans picked Representative Michael Huffington to battle Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein in what many are predicting could end up the most expensive Senate contest in history...
Earl Jam (office of Democratic Representative Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota...
...tentative tour dates will take the band andtheir van, to Toronto, North Dakota, California,Texas, Kentucky, D.C., New York City and back. Asof last week Matt was just starting to make surethe van was in working order to transport the bandand all their equipment across the country...
...debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25; he conquered Broadway with West Side Story and then endured the musical catastrophes of Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; he abandoned his long-suffering wife Felicia and spent his last years as the chain-smoking, emphysema-racked Yoda of the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Bernstein's life followed the trajectory of a cautionary tale with the lesson, whom the gods would destroy they first give too many talents...
...subsidy but now says, "My mind is open." The rising cost of health care, he says, makes him wonder "whether we have encouraged, because of the tax code, too much health coverage . . . Cadillac coverage when we ought to be aiming for Chevrolet coverage." Senator Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat, acknowledged that "it's safe to say that we won't allow a sky's-the-limit tax exclusion." And a top adviser to President Clinton predicted "a cap on the tax subsidy for upper-income people." Union leaders are on the alert. "We thought we had beaten this idea...