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COVER: Sunrise: Malcolm Fife--Getty Images; Bush, Kerry: Jay L. Clendenin--Polaris Images
Hometown: Bowhill (Fife), Scotland...
...swept into the state's top offices in 1998), but now Hull is one of Napolitano's most successful issues. During her two terms in office, Hull ran up a huge deficit but remained the most successful of the state's recent Republican Governors. (Evan Mecham was impeached; Fife Symington was indicted.) "Look at what happened to our state under the failed Republican leadership of the last Governors," said Napolitano during the first gubernatorial debate...
...thou Golfinia, Goddess of these plains, Great patroness of Goff, indulge my strains So wrote Edinburgh legal clerk Thomas Mathison in 1743 in one of the first books to describe the game that began with players hitting pebbles across sand dunes and rabbit holes in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland, sometime during the 15th century. Mathison?s 32-page work, The Goff, written in the satirical form of an epic poem, describes a match whose outcome is influenced by favoritism of the gods, chiefly the game?s patroness, Golfinia. A 1793 copy of The Goff was sold at auction...
...Roving wiretaps sound a little more onerous than they are," says George Vinson, a former FBI counterterrorism expert who serves as Davis' special adviser on security. "People have this mythical view that Barney Fife can just go around with alligator clips listening to his wife's phone conversations. There's a tremendous amount of structure, oversight and review that's involved." Roving taps require probable cause, but once such cause is established in a terrorism case, the FBI has to be alerted anyway. So why does California or any other state need its own roving taps? Vinson points out that...