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However, just as things were beginning to look promising for Harvard, sophomore defender Andrew Lundquist tried to prevent a breakaway by grabbing the jersey of a Hartford forward. Lundquist was given a red card and the team was forced to play the rest of the game a man down...
...they shaved it down in the House. They picked up open Senate seats in Arkansas, Nebraska and Alabama, which will have two Republican Senators for the first time since Reconstruction, but lost in South Dakota, where Larry Pressler fell to Representative Tim Johnson. Democrats held open seats in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Georgia and dashed G.O.P. hopes for further gains in Montana and Illinois. Gingrich, who on Election Day was privately predicting that he would pick up five seats, kept his balloons in the nets and his head down in a hotel in Atlanta long into the night...
Forty-two hours into the run, however, Dole was almost out of gas. After rolling through a Michigan truck stop, a Newark, New Jersey, diner and a Philadelphia nightclub, he found himself in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday, free-associating at a noontime rally--from Eisenhower to the war on drugs, from flag burning to Indogate, from partial-birth abortion to Boutros Boutros-Ghali. After months in search of a coherent message, Dole had returned to the splintered themes and message fragments of the primaries. There was only one difference: in March, it was good enough...
...there a Republican center? As they have in the past, Governors may provide some of it. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman could help her party overcome its problems among female voters, though Whitman's pro-choice position on abortion makes her unacceptable to the right. And there's Colin Powell, who is laying the groundwork for something or other. Last week he made last-minute donations to five Republican candidates around the country. One was Robert Smith of New Hampshire, a very conservative Senator who would ordinarily be an odd enthusiasm for Powell, who supports abortion rights and affirmative...
...Republicans to his Cabinet. He might consider replacing William Perry at Defense with Warren Rudman, and John Deutch at the CIA with Bill Cohen, the retiring Maine Senator. If Richard Riley leaves Education, though I hope he doesn't, then Tom Kean, a former Governor of New Jersey, might be a good choice...