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...Chalayan, a Londoner of Turkish-Cypriot descent with strong cultural ties to Istanbul, often finds assumptions about the city to be wide of the mark. "It's the New York not only of Turkey but of the region," he says. "Being next to water is liberating and makes it liberal???gay and lesbian scene and all. It's a cultural soup where one minute you could feel like you are in Paris, the next Cairo, then Moscow...
Pennsylvania is really three states. Philadelphia is part of the liberal??Northeast, Pittsburgh is Midwestern, and the center of the state is rural and conservative. Philly could be the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000 newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's even courting the Amish...
...Smith, Allott, Miller and others were retired, the Republicans suffered a net loss of two seats, and the new line-up of 57 to 43 will give the President an upper chamber somewhat more liberal???and potentially more hostile ?than its predecessor. It will also contain a goodly number of new faces (see following story...
...chance, only one fully accredited Republican liberal???New York's Charles Goodell?is seeking re-election this year. Through Agnew, who has attacked Goodell and raised funds for his Conservative Party opponent, the President has made clear his willingness to sacrifice a card-carrying Republican for someone more ideologically in tune with the Administration. Apart from Goodell, the insistence on ideological purity has greater practical significance for the future. Such Republican liberals as Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield and Edward Brooke, whose terms expire in 1973, undoubtedly perceive the warning signal: if necessary, Nixon is prepared to sacrifice even Republican liberals...
...other side, Iowa's Democratic Harold Hughes will be more liberal than retiring Republican Bourke Hickenlooper. Missouri's Thomas Eagleton will also be more liberal???and more useful?than Edward Long, whom Eagleton defeated in the primary election. And some of the new Republican Senators, notably Maryland's Charles McCurdy Mathias Ir. and Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, will add strength to the growing group of G.O.P. progressives...