Word: nelsons
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...Republicans in Florida and Washington think Harris would be an electoral disaster, not only losing her Senate race but driving up turnout among Democrats, which might bring down other Republicans on the ballot. G.O.P. bigwigs point to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week that showed Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson leading Harris 50% to 38%. Her supporters say Harris, who decided against a Senate run in 2004 after G.O.P. officials told her she could hurt President Bush's re-election prospects, was led to believe party officials would support her this time. Adam Goldman, a Harris adviser, said...
...TASMAN BAY This company, in New Zealand's sunny Nelson region, produces both a cultivar and a frantoio-leccino blend. Both won gold at the Los Angeles County Fair in 2004. Marketed under the name Elovi within New Zealand, these delicious oils are exported to the U.S. and Japan-and you can also have them shipped to your front door. Go to olivesnewzealand.com...
DIED. Eric Milliard ("Ricky") Nelson, 45, clean-cut rock singer and former teenage idol who grew up on TV's longest-running family sitcom, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-66) performing such early recordings as A Teenager's Romance (1957), Poor Little Fool (1958) and others, which sold more than 35 million copies by the time he was 21; in a DC-3 crash that also killed his fiancée and five members of his band; near De Kalb, Texas. Nelson had difficulty shedding his adolescent image after the TV program's demise, and his albums did poorly...
...that will place a writer, editor, broadcaster, photojournalist or even cartoonist on a space-shuttle mission perhaps as early as this fall. The chosen one will join a select group of spacegoing civilians, including Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah, who flew on Discovery last April; Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson of Florida, who went along on last week's much delayed mission of Columbia; and Social Studies Teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe, picked from 11,400 educators in a similar competition last year, who will lift off at the end of this week aboard Challenger...
...government decreed that the United Democratic Front, a multiracial antiapartheid group with perhaps 2 million supporters, will henceforth be barred from receiving overseas aid. Pretoria accuses the U.D.F., whose leading members include Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Imprisoned African Nationalist Nelson Mandela, of being a mouthpiece for the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, both of which are banned. In fact, the U.D.F. has become the recognized platform for a wide range of black and liberal-white opinions. About half its present funds, which cover the legal costs of hundreds of officials and supporters...