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...what the local press calls a David-and-Goliath matchup, Nolan is definitely not Goliath. He has chosen to run his first political race against an incumbent he admits is "a popular guy" so that he can fight for entitlements and family values. Nolan believes it's important to balance the federal budget, but not at the expense of Medicare, school lunches, food stamps and public education. Although a former environmental-education teacher, he can't count on environmental advocacy as a pebble in his slingshot, because the popular guy is an advocate...
...Congress for 18 years--four of them as a House Democrat--Gramm has become a sophisticated political power broker with a firm conservative base and a reputation as a top fund raiser. Though little of the power and prestige translated into presidential votes this year, Gramm is the Goliath in this campaign...
...seat is also crucial to the Democrats' crusade to take back Congress (or crucial to the Republicans' crusade to retain it, depending on your perspective). For those committed enough to their home state politics to get an absentee ballot, there are several interesting races, including the "David vs. Goliath" contest between Victor Morales and Phil Gramm in Texas and the perhaps lesser known, but still significant, re-election campaign of Max Baucus in Montana...
David did beat Goliath, but at least that guy was at full strength. Without three of its starters, Harvard was a sitting duck. Poised and ready to pounce, UMass unleashed five unanswered goals in the fourth quarter and walked away with the 8-5 victory...
...interviewed his share of computer industry titans in his five years as TIME's San Francisco bureau chief, but they don't get much more, well, titanic than Microsoft's Bill Gates and Netscape's Jim Barksdale. To report this week's cover story on their David-and- Goliath struggle to control the Internet, Jackson journeyed to the companies' respective headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and Mountain View, California, for first-hand views of the enemy camps. "Digital technology has always been a battleground of innovation and competition," says Jackson, "but rarely does it break into the open in the kind...