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Twenty-two states, including Iowa and New Hampshire (sites of the two crucial early contests), welcome crossover voters. Thus non-Republicans can help select the eventual G.O.P. nominee. Would they do it? Specter and Wilson believe their pro-choice views on abortion may be the key to an enlarged pool of voters (assuming Bill Clinton remains unopposed on the Democratic side). "Take Iowa first, because it is," says Roger Stone, who is masterminding Specter's campaign. "Figure the normal Iowa turnout of about 110,000 Republican votes, and assume, as everyone does, that Dole will win about 50% of those...
Thedwindling O.J. Simpson jury pool lurched closer to the minimal 12 todaywhen Judge Lance Ito dismissed two more jurors, leaving only two alternates in place. The defense immediately challenged one of the dismissals. Testimony was cancelled until an appeals court could rule on the matter. Judge Ito did not say why the two jurors -- a 28-year-old woman and a 54- year-old man -- had been dismissed, but it's believed that the woman was dismissed because she was taking notes for a book about the trial. It's the other juror whose dismissal the defense challenged, saysTIME...
Tadesse was one of six scholarship students admitted annually of a pool of 60 to 70 Ethiopian nationals to attend ICS, according to Maura McMillin, her senior-level English teacher in the school's International Baccalaureate program...
...Desert Inn Motel, the gossip is of the woman who swims naked in the pool across the street and of the Chinese and Indians who are buying up local motels. Paul Coyle, a 59-year-old retired welder with a long white beard and trembling hands, lives on Social Security and drinks a bottle of 151-proof Bacardi a day. He moved into the motel three months ago, after living in a casino parking lot for two years in his 1967 Cadillac. When his wife left him in 1986, Coyle had the names of his 16 children tattooed...
...pass up his offer nonetheless: for one thing, we're clearly second choice. An almost-identical letter was mailed to all male Yalies a few weeks ago, giving the same return address, a post office box in Cambridge. Would you date someone who thought Yale had a better mating pool...