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...full of miracle cures. They gave few specifics, but never mind. Voters were convinced that their generic bromides looked better than what the Democrats . had been peddling. Of those who uprooted hardy Democratic perennials, few were more unlikely than Texas Congressman-elect Steve Stockman and Tennessee Senator-elect Bill Frist...
...house painter and occasional accountant. The most effective element of his platform was simply not being 21-term Congressman Jack Brooks, who, if he had been re-elected, would have been the most senior member of the House. Being a Congressman will be Stockman's first steady job. Bill Frist, a heart-and-lung surgeon from Nashville, Tennessee, knocked off 18-year Senate veteran Jim Sasser by campaigning against the things Sasser was for: gun control, abortion rights and Washington pols telling people not to smoke in Old Smoky country. The main requirements for success among the neophytes were work...
...Bill Frist, 42, outspent his opponent Sasser nearly 3 to 2 -- $4.5 million to $2.8 million -- including $3.7 million of his own money from his family's chain of hospitals, Columbia/HCA. He imported an out-of-state gunslinger -- political consultant Tom Perdue who advised Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia in his upset win two years ago over Wyche Fowler. Frist went strongly negative on the "liberal, taxing, two-faced" Jim Sasser, running an ad picturing Sasser's face on Mount Rushmore alongside Ted Kennedy's and Dan Rostenkowski's and saying, "Eighteen years is long enough." Last February only...
Difficult as taking the high road may be, however candidates would do well to watch what they say today, because tomorrow their words could come back to haunt them. For example, Bill Frist, a physician who is seeking to displace Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.), may not be using this slogan in a few years, if he wins his seat: "Bill Frist supports term limits to stop career politicians, and the death penalty to stop career criminals...
Boston Conservatory Chamber Ensemble--performs Mozart, Debussy and Faure in the Frist and Second Church at 66 Marlborough St. Call 536-3036. Friday...