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Economic issues will probably be central to the Governors' races. This year, with states hemorrhaging red ink, once popular incumbents have found themselves in trouble. In Connecticut, Republican John Rowland seemed like a lock. Now Democrat Bill Curry is making gains with an ad that asks of the state's deficit, "Governor, what did you do with all that money?" One big gubernatorial trend 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...
...only a few months ago that Kathleen Kennedy Townsend seemed so unbeatable that no big-name Democrat would challenge her? With millions pouring into her campaign coffers, Townsend seemed to have a lock on this year's election for Maryland Governor. When Townsend's aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver threw her a $10-a-head fund raiser last year, traffic backed up for more than a mile, as 5,000 people clamored for an afternoon of Kennedy glamour. And the Governor's mansion was seen as a way station: it was just a matter of time, the pundits were saying, until...
...Abby Green, who took a language course in the city in 1994 and found the topless bathing "liberating." One American who never visited Nice was Mark Twain. "Travel," he wrote in 1869, "is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - but then he never met the hordes following the lock-step of all-inclusive tours. Yet even in Twain's era many observers were aghast that tourism was making places like Nice increasingly dependent on revenues from visitors. Then it was the influx of "ordinary people" stimulated by the coming of the railroad from Paris through Lyon and Marseilles. About...
...sure thing, it ought to be Texas. In Bush country they hold all 27 statewide offices. It has been nearly 30 years since a Democrat has won an open Senate seat. When three-term Senator Phil Gramm announced his retirement last year, who thought Republicans didn't have a lock on his replacement? Just to make sure, the President's political strategist, Karl Rove, mineswept the primary field to ensure that attorney general John Cornyn, a stately, snowy-haired vote getter with a huge political bankroll, would have a straight shot...
...This year has been a Power outage. They are 3-17-1 for the season, with a lock on last place. For Milbrett, a gold medal Olympian and the leading scorer on the 1999 World Cup champions, it's a new experience. She doesn't accept that loser rep: "We've been saying, and I'm still saying, that this is a better team than our results indicate. We outplayed five teams and ended up losing. That's why dealing with the record is a little easier." Soccer can be that way. The Power don't seem dispirited as they...