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...York Times Wednesday named Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell as the two mystery senators who put secret "holds" on Richard Holbrooke's nomination as United Nations ambassador, at least one and perhaps as many as three more senators are putting their weight on the brakes. George Voinovich of Ohio has joined Lott, McConnell and Charles Grassley - the first senator to object - in seeking to hold up Holbrooke's confirmation until their demands are met. While Voinovich's reasons are not yet clear, for McConnell and Lott, the motive was campaign-finance reform ? or, rather, their opposition...
...high school student in Toledo, Ohio, Frankel obsessed over financial markets. As an adult and college dropout, he fretted over the opportunities he perceived were passing him by. Of medium build, with brown hair and a diffident, stumbling, yet loquacious manner, Frankel came across as a possessor of arcane knowledge that would empower him and his clients. "He is the most inconspicuous guy you can imagine," says Jeff Creamer, a Toledo lawyer who represented two of Frankel's earliest victims. "That, coupled with what appears to be an Einstein-like devotion to the financial world, makes [people] think they have...
...just graduated from high school in Palo Alto, Calif., and worked 40 hours a week last summer as a computer programmer. "If you are a student who is anticipating applying to selective colleges," he says, "it really isn't acceptable to do nothing." Tony Bialorucki, 18, of Toledo, Ohio, was a caddy before trading in his golf clubs for a toolbox last summer to help build an orphanage in Guatemala. "I didn't want to work in a mall or a restaurant," he says. "That's kind of worthless...
...ready to laugh at their own prejudices. "Not all black people are hoodlums," wrote a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel subscriber. Others see the strip as antiwhite. "I think you should offer David Dukes equal room," fumed an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reader. Two small papers, in Aiken, S.C., and Massilon, Ohio, have canceled the strip. "Our readers couldn't see the humor," said Scott Hunter, publisher of the Aiken Standard...
This year's fellows are an eclectic group, coming from as far as Oberlin College in Ohio and the University of Texas and pursuing studies in subjects ranging from astronomy to poetry...