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...student at Harvard Law School, Patrick’s oratorical skills would win him the 1981 George S. Leisure Award, granted to the best speaker in the final round of the Ames moot court competition...
...collecting 51% of the vote. To hold his seat, he is trying to focus the race on local issues like the federal money for local roads he's brought home, and at the same time trying to link Murphy with Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco lawmaker likely to become Speaker of the House if Democrats win control. Gerlach says Pelosi and the Democrats would raise taxes and oppose measures like the Patriot Act that he says keep the country safe. Murphy, like Democrats across the country, is trying to unseat the incumbent by highlighting his support of President Bush, particularly...
...Smoke and mirrors, scoff the Democrats, who believe they are riding a broad and ferocious wave that all but guarantees that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California will be Speaker, and not in a squeaker: "1 Day to Victory!" says the Web page of the Democratic Congressional Committee...
...election were today, we would win, but the election is not today," she said. "We've got two Mount Everests to climb, and they're called Monday and Tuesday." At the events, when supporters came up to say how proud they were about her becoming the first female Speaker, she would quickly reroute the discussion to what they should do to get out the vote...
...coalition that includes parties that operate the death squads that kill scores of Sunnis each day. While he says illegal militias should be disbanded, he has vigorously resisted every U.S. operation against them. The Sunnis in Iraq's government are, if anything, even more extreme. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the Speaker of the Council of Representatives and Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni, has been closely associated with Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group that has targeted Shi'ites and secular Iraqis. He has blamed Iraq's problems on the Jews and has said statues should be erected...