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...Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Only voters in Utah, which earlier had adopted limits, turned down a proposed addition to their restrictions. The past election brings to 22 the number of states that have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate. "It's like a house is burning down, and all you have to put it out with is a teaspoon of water." What could have a drenching effect on the term-limits movement, however...
Neither Harvard nor Colgate could mount a scoring chance in the rest of regulation, and the overtime period was also scoreless. Colgate was able to fire five shots on Tracy during the extra period, while Harvard was not even able to get a shot...
...Columbia/HCA. He imported an out-of-state gunslinger -- political consultant Tom Perdue who advised Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia in his upset win two years ago over Wyche Fowler. Frist went strongly negative on the "liberal, taxing, two-faced" Jim Sasser, running an ad picturing Sasser's face on Mount Rushmore alongside Ted Kennedy's and Dan Rostenkowski's and saying, "Eighteen years is long enough." Last February only 12% of Tennesseans had an unfavorable view of Sasser; by November 46% did. Frist came from 40 points behind to three in the fall after flying from one town to another...
...City have long been home to droll souls like Busch, as well as to camp cabaret like the French import Les Incroyables (70 endless minutes of cross-dressing, lip-synching and canned cancan) and innocent party-time musicals like Nunsense 2: The Sequel (this time the good sisters of Mount Saint Helen's School play "Pin the Braid on Sinead...
...have served the Bosnian government well: for the first time in 31 months of war, they are poking through the overextended lines of the Bosnian Serb army. Government forces have retaken 60 sq. mi. of territory from the Serbs near Bihac in the north, made significant gains around strategic Mount Igman overlooking the capital of Sarajevo and recaptured the town of Kupres and perhaps an additional 40 sq. mi. in central Bosnia...