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LAMAR ALEXANDER Orrin Hatch says he'll run for Prez too. Lamar may not be the loneliest guy out there anymore...
Never mind that Orrin Hatch is the twelfth GOP presidential candidate in a primary race that?s practically already been won. That no one outside of Utah seems to like him very much. That he doesn?t have a chance. Sometimes, a man?s just gotta run. "Hatch has been ruminating about this for a long, long time," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "He?s been in the Senate 23 years. He?s 65 years old. If he was ever going to run, he might as well do it now." Hatch made his unofficial announcement Tuesday in his favorite...
...accommodation engineered by Hatch?s own supporters a while back -? so he?s got nothing to lose. And of course, ego had not a little to do with it. "There?s a saying," says Carney, "that every senator wakes up, looks in the mirror and sees a president." Orrin Hatch is going to need the campaign trail to open up and swallow his competition before that happens...
...school seniors are 200 times more likely to get into Harvard than to be murdered in their school, according to Newsweek, over 57% of Americans think that something like the Colorado murders could happen in their childrens high school. This statistic most likely helped produce this statement by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, after his panel passed the proposed flag-burning amendment: "We are experiencing a value malaise in this country, and the negative impact falls hardest on our children. Without a strong value system, our childrencannot distinguish good from bad or right from...
...high-tech companies have started to fight back. Industry lobbyists have been working with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and other lawmakers to make it much harder to win lawsuits for injuries caused by Y2K glitches. Bills currently working their way through Congress would raise the burden of proof above the standard that plaintiffs must meet in other lawsuits--that their version of events is more likely true than not. And they would impose caps on punitive damages and attorneys' fees...