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With the Senate already comfortably Republican, you might think this rump race would be no big deal. You would be wrong. Although Bush warned Republicans not to gloat over taking the Senate, he didn't say anything about not rubbing it in with one more win. Senator Mitch McConnell, the G.O.P. campaign chairman, refers to the contest as "war." He's pouring as much as $10 million into the state to help Terrell, who had been a relative unknown until Election Day, when she finished ahead of the early favorite, Representative John Cooksey. He was abandoned by the national party...
...With the Senate already comfortably Republican, you might think this rump race would be no big deal. You would be wrong. Although Bush warned Republicans not to gloat over taking the Senate, he didn't say anything about not rubbing it in with one more win. Senator Mitch McConnell, the G.O.P. campaign chairman, refers to the contest as "war." He's pouring as much as $10 million into the state to help Terrell, who had been a relative unknown until Election Day, when she finished ahead of the early favorite, Representative John Cooksey. He was abandoned by the national party...
...since a failed coup on Sept. 19. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and heightened tensions between the largely Muslim northern regions and the predominantly Christian south. See Also: Cracks in the Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina and one of the main defendants at the Hague war-crimes trials, pleaded guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. In effect, Plavsic admitted Bosnian...
...that the cyclical nature of the energy business has just this quarter turned around and bitten the entire industry on the rump. With the suffering global economy keeping prices down all winter, first-quarter earnings season has hardly been a great one for BP (profits down 57 percent year-over-year), ChevronTexaco (down 70 percent), Conoco (down 84 percent) or ExxonMobil (down 58 percent). And the oft-quoted Marathon Oil? Net income in Q1 2002 was down 87 percent from 2001, due primarily to - as was the case for all of the above - reduced profit margins for refined crude products...
Note to Madonna, Britney, J. Lo and all blondishly tressed, rump-wiggling, belly-baring singer- dancers: give it up. You are pale imitations. CHARO is back! And better than ever, especially now that stretch fabrics have been mainstreamed. The campy sensation of '70s and early '80s TV is both star and co-producer of Bravo, her own show in Las Vegas, featuring flamenco, merengue, salsa and plenty of clean "cuchi-cuchi" for the entire family. Asked if she was sick of her signature phrase, she burbled, "Are you kidding? Cuchi-cuchi has shown me the way to the bank...