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...been more than 70 years since a sitting Senator lost an election in Louisiana. It has been almost 120 years since a Republican senatorial candidate in Louisiana won one. Both those streaks are safe--for now. On Saturday, Senator Mary Landrieu successfully defended her seat against challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell, by 51% to 49%, in a nasty, narrow runoff election that gives dazed Democrats a silver lining to their dark midterm cloud...
...last undecided U.S. Senate race may not mean much in terms of that chamber's balance of power - with 51 seats already in the bag, Republicans are guaranteed at least a majority. But the runoff contest between Louisiana's incumbent Democrat, Mary Landrieu, and her Republican challenger, Suzanne Haik Terrell, does hold a powerful symbolic appeal. A number of GOP VIPs, including President Bush, have campaigned in the state recently to help solidify the party's strong national showing in November; Democrats, mindful that they already need two Jim Jeffords-like defections to retake the Senate, would prefer...
LOUISIANA Mary Landrieu has to defend her seat against Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell in a December runoff...
...Ahmed wouldn't agree to support the new regime. All to no avail. One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also included an extra, heavily cloaked figure in a Moslem woman's head-to-foot white haik. Friendly guards looked the other way. Before Boumedienne got the word several hours later, Aït Ahmed had been whisked to the coast ten miles away and put on a yacht bound for Europe...
Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans dwindled again to a tiny community. Today they number barely 350: about 200 near the Jordanian town of Nablus (Biblical Shechem), and another 130 across the border in the Israeli town of Haik...
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