Word: louisiana
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...appeared hopeless, and Republicans, who cling to a slim 51-to-48 majority (with one independent), were confidently predicting they would widen that lead. Especially in the Republican-friendly South, Democrats were staring at a wipeout, with five of their Senators--Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, John Breaux of Louisiana, John Edwards of North Carolina, Zell Miller of Georgia and Bob Graham of Florida--all deciding to retire...
...Democrats have since recruited credible-enough candidates that the party now has a shot at holding on to three or four of the Southern seats--in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. And in the West, Democrats are hoping to nab the open seats left by the retirement of Republican Senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado and Don Nickles of Oklahoma, and to take on the vulnerable Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. So suddenly the math has changed: Democrats can see their way to a net gain of two seats, which would give them a slim advantage in the Senate...
...club restaurants. Ethnic cuisine is catching on too. Typhoon, inside Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club, has become such a popular sushi spot that it does great business with both club members and guests who walk in off the street. With a menu that includes healthy versions of such Louisiana favorites as spicy crawfish and Cajun-style gumbo, chef Marc Gilberti serves about 200 diners a day at the Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans, earning $100,000 a month for his club. Like many other new health-club chefs, Gilberti, who built his reputation in the kitchens of some...
...year that the Army originally pledged that they would be there and has tapped into the ranks of reservists and retirees to bulk up the overall Army force from 480,000 to 640,000. Now it wants to send crack units from California's National Training Center and Louisiana's Joint Readiness Training Center to Iraq, which some fear could hurt prewar training at home...
Cowan, for instance, hailed from Louisiana...