Word: oklahomas
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...shot at holding on to three or four of the Southern seats--in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. And in the West, Democrats are hoping to nab the open seats left by the retirement of Republican Senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado and Don Nickles of Oklahoma, and to take on the vulnerable Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. So suddenly the math has changed: Democrats can see their way to a net gain of two seats, which would give them a slim advantage in the Senate. "We're at the cusp of a victory in November," says Senator...
Wherever I went in the house, I carried both cordless and cell phones and the laptop. At one point, I was under the bathroom sink, failing to unblock the U bend, when she called to say, "I'm coming up on Oklahoma City. How do I get from I-40 to I-44?" A few mouse clicks, a look at the map, and I was able to talk her through the interchange. (That happened more often as she moved east to larger cities like St. Louis, Mo., and Indianapolis, Ind.) On the second night, Gabby found a place to stay...
...sports writer for the daily Evenimentul Zilei who attributes the success to "titanic work, military discipline and special diet." He adds, "But it allows you to do miracles almost overnight." Training conditions have improved greatly since Comaneci's time. When Comaneci, who now runs a gymnastics academy in Norman, Oklahoma, trained in Deva, the apparatus was antiquated, the gymnasium was stifling, and there was little money to be made from the sport. Today athletes get luxury treatment by comparison, she says. "It's more like Ritz-Carlton today." They sleep in air-conditioned rooms, have bathrooms with Jacuzzis, and train...
...pulling it apart. Fully 85% of Bush's supporters say his faith makes him a strong leader, according to TIME's poll; 65% of Kerry's say it makes Bush close-minded. "I respect him for having faith," says Tim Baer, a religious-studies major at the University of Oklahoma who wants to go to a seminary and become an Episcopal priest. "I just disagree with how he uses his faith as a President. It's dividing people...
SPARED THE DEATH PENALTY. TERRY NICHOLS, 49, convicted of 161 state murder counts in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people; in McAlester, Okla. Jurors failed to agree on a punishment, thereby barring use of the death penalty. A judge is expected to sentence Nichols to life in prison without parole...