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With just under six weeks remaining in the race to gain the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat vacated by the late Edward M. Kennedy ’54-56, the two Harvard alumni in contention are facing large gaps in the polls, according to figures released last week by a Massachussetts-based polling institute...
...unorthodox candidates: a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-union Republican; a registered independent running on the Democratic ticket; and a Conservative Party candidate who doesn't live in the district and may well win - or play the part of GOP spoiler and help elect a Democrat to a seat that has been occupied by Republicans since the 1800s - despite skipping most chances to appear publicly with his opponents. But even these three personalities aren't what make the campaign to replace former Republican Representative John McHugh - tapped to be President Obama's Secretary of the Army - downright weird. What...
...district solves its problems will depend on which of these individuals—whose educational philosophies range widely—gets a seat on next year’s school committee...
...savage 1992-95 war in Bosnia, started without the defendant at the international war-crimes court in the Hague. As prosecutor Alan Tieger gave his opening statement on Oct. 27, listing the 11 counts of war crimes, including two counts of genocide, against Karadzic, the defendant's seat remained empty, a pair of earphones sitting idly on the desk in front...
...ease with which Blagojevich climbed the political ladder - and his upbringing in the back-scratching, wheel-greasing vortex of Chicago politics, where more than 1,500 people have been convicted of public corruption since 1970 - may explain why Blagojevich somehow considers dangling a U.S. Senate seat "routine." Even today, the comeback he's attempting to engineer - he told TIME he is "not ruling out the possibility" of a return to politics - is being driven in part by dollars. "We're in debt because I was an honest governor," he says. "O.K.? And now I don't have job prospects. This...