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...Midwestern Democrats nonetheless scored some big victories. Marcy Kaptur astonished her own party by winning almost 59% of the vote in a Toledo district that had voted 56% for Republican Ed Weber only two years ago. One reason: the Toledo AFL-CIO hired some of the district's jobless blue-collar workers to make 30,000 phone calls on her behalf. South Dakota lost one of its two House seats to redistricting, forcing Incumbents Clint Roberts, a Republican who represented the conservative, ranching western part of the state, and Thomas Daschle, a Democrat who represented the more liberal, farming...
Holy Cross Athletic Director Ron Perry had been keeping an eye on Carter for three years, through a friend of his who knew Midwestern football pretty well And Edward Bennett Williams (Holy Cross '41), the millionaire lawyer who owns both the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Orioles, had noticed Carter out there as well. Both men also knew the football program at Holy Cross had been on a long and winding downward road since its Orange Bowl team...
...black administrator in a major Midwestern university, I want to emphasize the words of Allison Brown in her editorial for the Ole Miss magazine. The present white and black college students are making sincere efforts to share experiences and not accentuate their differences. Let's not dwell on the past. The future is going to be better...
...this clash of two midwestern beer towns with no recent World Series experience the normally powerful Brewers nickeled and dimed the Cardinals one run at a time. They finished with 13 singles...
...contaminated drug on the Thursday-evening news. On Friday, the FDA belatedly advised consumers to "avoid in prudence" all bottles of the capsules. By then it was virtually impossible to obtain Extra-Strength Tylenol anywhere in the Chicago area or indeed in many locations around the country. Two Midwestern retail chains, Jewel and Walgreen, withdrew all bottles of the pain reliever from their stores...