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...initial concerns, the door to the JCR was unlocked, the TV was functional and the room was empty except for me and Rory. It seemed nothing was going to keep a guy from Connecticut (me) and a guy from Idaho from watching a show denigrating life in New Jersey. Except for Harvard University, of course...
...G.O.P. insider tells TIME. "Sometime in October it's going to break one way or the other. I feel it in my gut." The number of extraordinarily close races this year is adding to the suspense. In the Senate, races in Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Dakota and Texas could turn on a couple of percentage points...
...with national implications is the decline of the so-called Frostbelt Republican Governor. In the 1990s some of the biggest names in the G.O.P. came from this tier: John Engler of Michigan, William Weld of Massachusetts, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey, to name a few. These Governors aided the G.O.P. in two fundamental ways: they helped control redistricting to make it more favorable for Republicans, and they helped moderate the national G.O.P., setting the stage for the "compassionate conservatism" selling point of George W. Bush's 2000 campaign. This fall Democrats...
...planned to launch a program called Yoga Ed, already used in public schools in Los Angeles, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio, in hopes that it would help children focus. But Woodrow is worried the curriculum also encourages teachers to discuss such practices as transcendental meditation. He cites a 1979 New Jersey case in which teaching transcendental meditation in public schools was found to violate the First Amendment. While its attorney reviews the yoga program, the Aspen School District is striking terms like mantra and considering making the lessons optional. "Some of the parents' concerns were legitimate," concedes superintendent Tom Farrell...
...million and offered his own gun for the murder. Orlando Anderson, the man who the Times says fired the gun, was later killed in gang warfare. B.I.G. himself was shot dead six months after Shakur. B.I.G.'s family has called the report false, saying he was in New Jersey at the time of Shakur's killing...