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...money will be spent on our campaign field efforts, working to unseat Republicans like [Pennsylvania’s Senator] Rick Santorum, [Rhode Island’s Senator] Lincoln Chaffee, and [New Mexico’s U.S. Representative] Heather Wilson,” Piper wrote...
PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF THE MISSING LINC Lincoln Chafee, the pro-choice, antiwar, handgun-hating Senator, wins his Rhode Island Senate primary, proving that the G.O.P. will do anything to keep its majority--even elect a Democrat...
Jennings is hip enough to make fun of his freakish triviaphilia but savvy enough to indulge it too--part of the joy of Brainiac is learning that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day and that Charles Bronson was the only member of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen. There's something touching about the world of trivia. It's a place where minutiae have a paradoxical grandeur and no fact is meaningless. Or as the coach of Carleton's quiz-bowl team puts it, "Everything's going to be worth 10 points someday...
...Republicans should be thrilled Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee won his primary Tuesday - and not just because he likely saved them a Senate seat. Certainly the most obvious implication from Chafee's victory in a very competitive primary against Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey is that the Republicans at least have a chance to hold on to one of the seats Democrats are trying to win this November. Chafee is running about even in the polls against the man he will face this fall, former Rhode Island attorney general Sheldon Whitehouse, but Laffey was so far behind that Republicans were ready...
...cure, but it can be controversial. The basic philosophy: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Become one of the increasing number of museums and historical sites that are redesigning their collections with high-tech interfaces, action-packed short films and theme-park aesthetics. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum opened in Springfield, Ill., last year with a talking Honest Abe hologram and a host of other educational parlor tricks. The Marine Corps museum, opening in Quantico, Va., near Washington in November, will use changes in temperature and humidity to immerse its visitors--and, it hopes, drum up recruits...