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Democrats are still seething over the very public defection of Zell Miller, the Democratic Senator from Georgia who endorsed George W. Bush and trashed John Kerry at the G.O.P. Convention. Now Republicans have a defector of their own to worry about: Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island's moderate G.O.P. Senator, who told home-state reporters two weeks ago that he probably won't vote for Bush in November. The Senator has opposed the President on such issues as tax cuts, the decision to go to war in Iraq and Bush's refusal to press for renewal of the assault-weapons...
...Senator says President Bush hasn't called him but that intermediaries have told him that Administration aides wish he would "just keep quiet." Senate Republicans could retaliate--for example, by denying funds for projects important to Chafee's constituents in Rhode Island. But as angry as they might be over Chafee's defection, G.O.P. Senators are well aware that their slim majority in the Senate could be jeopardized if he were to switch parties, as Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords did three years ago. Chafee says he has no plans "at this stage" to bolt the party. But Republicans know that...
According to Heymach, Robbins was not to be seen for the next three days. Finally, he called all of Robbins’ friends, eventually reaching his roommate’s parents down in Rhode Island...
...RHODE ISLAND 42, BROWN...
Winner of the Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Stay Until Tomorrow is the opening screening for the 29th Annual New England Film and Video Festival. It tells the story of Nina (Eleanor Hutchins), a former teen star on a popular soap opera who takes to a life of cavalier globetrotting after her star fizzles out until she finds solace in childhood friend Jim (Barney Cheng). Director Laura Colella developed the film with the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Lab. Tickets $8, $6 with student ID. 7:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre...