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...With midterm elections only two weeks away, politicians tried to spin the crisis. The G.O.P. "charged that the timing was political and aimed at preventing a Democratic debacle," according to TIME, while in New York the Democratic candidate for Governor attacked the incumbent as soft on fallout-shelter building...
...It’s midterm time for Gossip Guy. More than a few all-nighters have left him with bleary lies, unkempt rumors and three days’ worth of shaggy, unsightly innuendo...
...normal midterm election, it's often the House races, where candidates generally are not well known or well funded, that get tousled by the big national issues of the day. Senate races tend to be more separate, individual affairs, and until recently, the South Dakota race was mainly about meat-packing and ethanol subsidies. But for different reasons, candidates from both parties this year are trying to paint the bigger picture: Republicans in hope of surfing on Bush's continued popularity, and Democrats because they now face the possibility of losing their one-vote hold on the Senate. A unified...
...same time, Jewish students were assaulted on their way to or from campus. Though there's no evidence to suggest a link, the divestment campaign turned into an ugly scuffle two weeks later when 79 protestors (half of them students) were arrested after seizing a campus building where a midterm exam was under...
...normal midterm election, it's often the House races, where candidates generally are not well known or well funded, that get tousled by the big national issues of the day. Senate races tend to be more separate, individual affairs, and until recently, the South Dakota race was mainly about meat-packing and ethanol subsidies. But for different reasons, candidates from both parties this year are trying to paint the bigger picture: Republicans in hope of surfing on Bush's continued popularity, and Democrats because they now face the possibility of losing their one-vote hold on the Senate. A unified...