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...first-time sushi eater? In crucial California, at least, the reason was a climactic revolt against politics as usual that rewarded not Clinton so much as outsider Ross Perot and, to a historic extent, a surging team of women candidates led by Democratic U.S. Senate nominees Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer...
...gender victories raised the unprecedented prospect of two women Senators elected from California next fall. Moderate Democrat Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, roundly defeated state controller Gray Davis 58% to 33% and will face appointed incumbent John Seymour, a moderate Republican, in November. Liberal Democratic Congresswoman Boxer, with 44%, overcame both Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy and Congressman Mel Levine and will take on conservative Republican Bruce Herschensohn for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Alan Cranston...
...though there are exceptions to the rule. James Schroeder, whose wife Pat, a Colorado Congresswoman, once ran for President, says his legal career has not suffered and he has never been accused of a conflict of interest. But investment banker Richard Blum, husband of former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, says his firm was hampered because he turned down some clients to avoid the appearance of impropriety. "Could I have done better if my wife was home baking cookies?" asks Blum. "I think so." Another Californian, secretary of state March Fong Eu, decided to abandon her race...
...Diego Republican, twice picked for the U.S Senate before defeating Dianne Feinstein for the governor's mansion last year, has always been the consummate politician. In his 1988 bid for the Senate, the hard working Wilson even won more votes in a single election than anyone in Congressional history...
Tennis players are on intensive view for longer periods than any other athletes, which is why they hide their heads under towels at changeovers. But Feinstein does not give us that view. He does not show Lendl or Becker or Navratilova moving on a court. A single exception illustrates what is missing. Jimmy Connors, Feinstein says, was playing singles in the early stages of a tournament, and another match was under way on the adjoining court. Connors went wide for a ball, slugged a winner, was carried into the next court by his momentum, saw a ball from the other...