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...Lowell Weicker vexed the GOP again, this time as an outsider, with an independent victory for governor of Connecticut. Republican Gov. Kay Orr was trailing, barely, in Nebraska...
According to the most recent polls, thegubernatorial races in which women are running inAlaska, California, Kansas, Oregon and Texas arenow too close to call. Women gubernatorialcandidates in Pennsylvania, Wyoming, andNebraska--where Kay Orr is seekingre-election--stand an outside chance of winning...
Kerrey's re-entry into politics came sooner than he wanted. When Democratic Senator Edward Zorinsky died suddenly in 1987, Governor Kay Orr named a Republican to the vacancy. After a semester teaching a course on Vietnam at Santa Barbara, Kerrey decided to run for the seat and defeated the appointee, David Karnes, by 100,000 votes. Groused Orr: "Nebraskans are having a love affair with Bob Kerrey," a remark that drives Kerrey intimates up the wall with its implication that he is more style than substance...
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After graduating, Souter returned home to Weare, N.H., and took a job at Orr & Reno, a Concord law firm. But he was not happy in private practice. In 1968 he took the turn in the road that would eventually land him in the White House chatting with the President, by joining the New Hampshire attorney general's staff. Shortly after Warren Rudman became state attorney general in 1970, he plucked Souter from a group of assistants to become his top aide. The thoroughly scholarly Souter soon became the perfect complement to the gregarious, politically wired Rudman. The two, along with...