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...poster of Bill Clinton hangs in the entry of the state Democratic Party's offices in Harrisburg. But don't look for Clinton's smiling face at Tim Holden's headquarters around the corner. Holden rarely misses a chance to tell voters he's a Blue Dog Democrat - among the most conservative in Congress. Party luminaries like liberal minority leader Richard Gephardt haven't been asked to campaign with Holden - though his race is critical for the Democrats. And Holden would wear a garlic necklace to keep Clinton away...
...Which helps explain why he's running neck and neck with Republican George Gekas in one of only four incumbent-vs.-incumbent congressional matchups in the country. Gekas hadn't planned on a tight race. Republicans redrew the boundaries of Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, intending to snuff out Holden's five-term House career. The state lost two seats after the 2000 census, and the G.O.P.-controlled legislature hoped to protect the party's own. The new 17th, a mix of farmland and job-starved coal-mining terrain plus the state capital, Harrisburg, contains 60% of Gekas' old district...
...swift rise and fall of Felicia Holden as a project manager matched that of her employer, a New York City Internet-design and architecture company. When the call came last summer, "it was devastating," she says. Still, the experience proved invaluable--mainly as material for her first stand-up comedy act. Soon the slender thirtysomething was pursuing a lifelong ambition, cracking jokes in her Georgia twang before notoriously unforgiving audiences at comedy clubs around the city. "I felt at that point that I had nothing to lose...
...around his calves," a reference to chronically uncool NBA player Keith Van Horn, Eggers may have enriched the English language by a verb). At their best, Will and Hand, like Vladimir and Estragon, have genuine existential pathos; at their worst they're a little jejune, a pair of Holden Caulfields railing at the phonies. Critics have tarred Eggers with the brush of irony, and You Shall Know Our Velocity seems to be his attempt to cleanse himself in the turpentine of earnestness. "When we pass by another person without telling them we love them," Will thinks, "it's cruel...
Coming Out Day this year comes a week after the BGLTSA held elections for certain posts, electing Andrew R. Suggs ’05 as publicity chair, Kevin B. Holden ’05 as secretary, Marcel A.Q. Laflamme ’04 as public relations chair and Oussama Zahr ’04 as political chair...