Word: longshots
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...announced he'll challenge Gephardt for the Democrats' top House job. The Rose rationale: the Party faithful might be better off if they?re less faithful to President Clinton. "Our president is not our prime minister, and the (congressional) leaders are not his chief whips," said Rose, a moderate and longshot who had his eye on the Speakership before the Dems lost control of Congress. California Rep. George Miller, a liberal and chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, is also a rumored contender.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...reviewable in habeas corpus proceedings. A Texas case pending before the Supreme Court, Herrera v. Collins, seeks to establish a constitutional connection: that carrying out executions in the face of unexamined new evidence is cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment. It is a longshot gamble that the decision will go in Herrera's favor; it is an even longer shot that the decision will come down in time for Coleman to use that argument...
...many students said they voted for someone else because Brown was such a longshot...
...11th-ranked Harvard, which fell out of favor with the pollsters after dropping two games last weekend, is only a longshot to secure one of the 12 NCAA bids, which will be announced in two weeks...
...door down, however, a bookstore called for a different Republican longshot to be elected...