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DIED. HEYWOOD HALE BROUN, 83, elegantly literate sports journalist and sometime actor; in Kingston, N.Y. A cbs commentator for 19 years, Broun covered such sports events as Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown, authored three books and appeared in 14 movies, including For Pete's Sake with Barbra Streisand...
...gold rep tie has a movement so seduced the G.O.P. Conservative stalwarts Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Phil Gramm of Texas have decided to yield their Senate seats after 2002, and strategists fear a wave of retirement notices in the next few months. Possible departures include Senator Pete Domenici, a five-termer from New Mexico, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, the other Texas Senator and a new adoptive mom. Aides to Alaska's Frank Murkowski have let it be known their boss is weighing a run for Governor, meaning he could leave the Senate next year. And Die Hard...
...Balls gang, a kid from Brazil named Gustaf-Gustafo, Gustavo. . .Gustavo Kuertin, sounds like curtain - he says 'No way, Jose.' He says, 'I'm not part of this,' and he leaves about the same time as Andre. So Andre's gone and Gustafo's gone, and there's only Pete and this kid from Australia named Leigh-something. At least boring is just boring, but I think this kid is bad news. He gets into a fight early on, and I swear he called another guy names - like racial names. First he said he didn't do it, when...
Liberals say that will be harder for the candidate already anointed by centrist Democrats: former Panhandle Congressman Douglas (Pete) Peterson, a former Vietnam prisoner of war who returned to that Southeast Asian country in 1997 as Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador. Fans tout Peterson as a Democratic John McCain; detractors say he is McCain without the charisma. But Nelson and Florida's senior Senator, Bob Graham, sent top Democratic fund raisers to Hanoi last spring to lure Peterson home. As he and his Vietnamese wife Vi Le were packing in May, Reno broke the blind-siding news that...
...next year for a national missile defense. And it may be a good idea to dip into the fund to help stimulate the economy. But so far, the only politician to stick his head above the parapet and say times have changed and so should our minds is Sen. Pete Domenici, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "What's wrong with using it for education," Domenici said last week. "I have now talked with 15 economists. None of them believe that is good economic policy for America to say we cannot touch those [funds] in a time...