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"[The referendum] may give some traction to someone outside the council who could run on a platform totally opposed to the increase," Barkley said. "It would be very irresponsible, however. Anyone who's been in this body for more than a semester knows we need more money."
"We have got to give Kuusisto some support," said sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero, an All-American blueliner last year. "In the first period we were playing Dartmouth loose and not latching on. We picked it up by the third period, but it wasn't enough."
That tendency explains why McCain is not well loved in the Republican cloakroom, where after-class feelings matter. "If he would just count to five sometimes," says a G.O.P. Senate veteran, "he would probably get a lot more done." Detractors say that's why he is never able to corral...
And there is evidence that McCain is able to build bipartisan coalitions on occasion. He has successfully pushed for passage of the lobbying-gift ban, the line-item veto and the repeal of the catastrophic- health-care surtax, an unfair tax on seniors. As Commerce Committee chairman, McCain has shown...
In contrast to the volcanic picture some Senators paint of their relations with McCain, his connections are good with Fritz Hollings, the ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee. "They have had a lot of tough fights, but McCain never says Hollings is evil," says a Democratic committee staff member. "In...