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Meanwhile, pressure was building in Congress. On July 25, Rove huddled with 43 moderate Congressmen of the Republican Mainstreet Partnership at the Capitol Hill Club. Minnesota Representative Jim Ramstad, whose mother suffers from Alzheimer's disease and whose first cousin died from juvenile diabetes, stood up and made an impassioned plea for stem-cell research. In reply, Rove recounted how on a trip he took to Georgia a young couple came up to him and pleaded for stem-cell research to continue for another six months so it might save their ailing child. The President, Rove told the Congressmen, considered...
...Starbucks, Bank Boston, The Gap, Microsoft, Abercrombie and Fitch, AT&T, Victoria's Secret, Bertucci's Pizza Kitchen and all those others who have moved into every mall and mainstreet of America...
...become Iowa's first female representative in the state's 150-year history. She promises to fight for working families, and says high schools should teach marketable skills to noncollege-bound students. At the same time, she has pursued careers as an educator and television weathercaster, and established Project Mainstreet to provide funding for community-improvement projects...
Harvard Film Archive--presents TheInformer at 5:15 and 9:15 p.m. The Shop in MainStreet...
Grand Junction, Colorado, a town like a hundred other western towns, stretched like rags on a clothesline down five or six miles of four-lane mainstreet, motels and chain store steak restaurants dangling off the side, was the journey's nadir. Planted in the middle of nowhere--away from the mountains, on the edge of the desert--its only excuse was the conflation of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers. Like my automobile, the town itself is an escape hatch. Nothing strange penetrates past the jacked-up cars in which everyone cruises...