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...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty
...couple of mainstream polls have begun to show that Democrat Harold Ford Jr. is topping Republican Bob Corker in Tennessee's pivotal U.S. Senate race, but Ford may have a little problem on his hands in home-base Memphis: his younger brother Jake - who's running for big brother's old 9th Congressional district seat. Jake is running as an independent against the Democratic nominee with the blessing of the family patriarch and onetime local party boss, Harold Ford...
...Ford himself has said he'll stay neutral regarding Cohen and his brother Jake. But the rest of the family is splitting over the race. Joe Ford Jr., an entertainment lawyer who finished third in the congressional primary - and is first cousin to both Jake Ford and Harold Ford Jr. - has endorsed Cohen. But Harold Sr., a former congressman, has gone all-out for son Jake, especially since longtime rival Herenton put down young Ford as unqualified (he dropped out of high school) and accused the Fords of seeking "a monopoly on all elected positions in this state and this...
...savings are clear enough to Patricia Guiles, 74, of Palm Bay, Fla., whose husband Harold, 77 and in poor health, fell and couldn't get up. She called 911. But by the time the ambulance arrived, she had talked with her husband's house-call doctor by cell phone. She sent the ambulance away, and the doctor came, checked her husband's heart with an ECG, gave him a shot and adjusted his medication. The next day the doctor sent a technician with a portable electrocardiograph to check his heart. "This is much more intimate care," she says...
...stakes and the expected closeness of this fall's election, it is no surprise that a new generation of them has mobilized in recent months. At least three groups--two that tilt Democratic and one Republican--are already generating controversy. Another, the September Fund, led by Hillary Clinton strategist Harold Ickes, is just getting under way. With the Democratic Party far behind Republicans in fund raising, this group of operatives hopes to reduce the G.O.P.'s advantage by raising $20 million to pour into advertising and other support for congressional campaigns and ballot initiatives...