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...Senate since 1962, Kennedy won 73 percent of the vote in his last election. Apart from the governorship, the attorney general is the only statewide office that is likely to change hands tomorrow. Republican Larry Frisoli, a former Cambridge vice mayor, and Democrat Martha Coakley, the veteran Middlesex County district attorney, are vying to replace outgoing Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly. Coakley, who is heavily favored in the race, may continue the trend of Middlesex district attorneys becoming state attorneys general. Both Reilly and his predecessor, Scott Harshbarger, served as the top prosecutor in Middlesex County—the state?...
...couple of chip shots away from a combined golf course and housing development. While the two higher-security prisons there have walled yards, the entire campus is separated from the community by only a single barbed-wire cow fence. State representative Buffie McFadyen, a two-term Democrat whose district includes the prisons in Fremont County, has pressed members of Congress, to no avail, to appropriate funds to build a solid wall around the complex, along with a central guard tower to better protect the center from outside attack. The Bureau of Prisons has already failed four times to squeeze money...
...from being collective therapy, the trial has only helped widen the sectarian divide. While Shi'ites celebrated the verdict, many of Saddam's fellow Sunnis protested. In his hometown of Tikrit, over 1,000 people staged demonstrations in defiance of the curfew. In Baghdad's mainly Sunni Adhamiya district, several mortars landed near the Abu Hanifa shrine, the most revered Sunni mosque in the country...
...Conservative Face-Off in Kentucky Voters in this state's 4th congressional district have no problem with the values of Republican incumbent Geoff Davis. They have a problem with his party, and that's why his equally conservative Democratic challenger just...
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election