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...legislative office and has shown a penchant for coming to the rescue. The Tennessee lawmaker treated victims of a gunman who opened fire in the U.S. Capitol in 1998, and in 2001 came to the aid of Strom Thurmond when the Senator, then 98, collapsed on the Senate floor. But now, Frist, 50, is beginning a different kind of rescue mission, one that he may not be fully equipped to handle. Congress starts a new session this week, and the patient before Frist is his own party, still reeling from the Trent Lott debacle...
Frist concedes that he is starting from scratch. He has been on the phone to former Republican majority leaders Howard Baker and Bob Dole, asking for advice, and has been receiving tutorials in floor procedures from G.O.P. staff members. None of his decisions, not even the small ones, will be easy. Lott, for example, had already selected the 100 or so staff members a majority leader is allotted to manage the Senate, many among the Capitol's most skilled in moving legislation. Does Frist keep some of them to get the fast start Republicans originally wanted on their bills, even...
...other side of the aisle are two of the Democrats' shrewdest floor operatives: minority leader Tom Daschle and his deputy, Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who are no doubt eager to lay traps for Frist and his party. "Republicans claim they want to support civil rights," Daschle says coyly. "We want to give them ample opportunity to demonstrate that." Democratic staff members are rewriting their bosses' talking points to emphasize that poorer minorities will reap little from Bush's tax cuts compared with the wealthy. Senator Ted Kennedy hopes to force Republicans to vote on civil rights--related measures like affirmative...
Watching the police officers come and go, some of them in protective white suits and masks, and seeing the long hours they spent in the top-floor apartment above a local pharmacy, neighbors in North London's multiracial Wood Green section knew that something big was up. Last Tuesday morning they learned just how big. The Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch - as part of a joint intelligence operation with the Special Branch and MI5, Britain's domestic security service - raided premises in North and East London early on Jan. 5 and took six men, all believed to be North Africans...
...Green may also demonstrate more scoring prowess this weekend, as Dartmouth shot a mere 26.7 percent from the floor and an abysmal 1-for-27 (3.7 percent) from behind...