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...past six years, campaign-finance crusades waged by McCain have been spectacular, neon failures. But last week he may have found the key to success. Senator Thad Cochran, the Mississippi conservative, joined McCain's crusade on Thursday, bringing to 10 the number of Republicans who support the reform bill. If all 50 Senate Democrats back it, McCain will have the 60 votes needed to close down the filibuster his G.O.P. colleagues would launch to kill it. Bagging Cochran "shook the earth" for G.O.P. Senators, says Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who has written his own campaign-finance legislation...
Many of the new therapies also happen to be incredibly potent. Last month, for example, pharmaceutical giant Novartis reported spectacular results in a clinical trial of Glivec, a drug that disables a uniquely aberrant protein produced inside cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia, which afflicts 4,400 new patients in the U.S. each year. In the drug's very first test, every patient went into remission. In the most recent results, 30% showed no sign of the chromosomal damage that marks the disease and appeared to have been cured. "This drug is amazing," says Richard Stone, an oncologist at the Dana...
...Moore's spectacular performance on the man-advantage highlighted a Crimson power play unit that is steadily climbing up in the conference's statistics. Harvard's power play jumped from a woeful 6.7 percent earlier this season to 22.8 percent. This weekend alone, the Crimson went 5 for 12 on the man-advantage, posting a dominant 41 percent success rate...
...begin to pour on the offense in the second half of the second period, forcing senior goalie Oli Jonas to once again make his share of spectacular saves...
...White House. After secretly checking out houses as storied as the Auchincloss mansion in Georgetown, the couple agreed last Friday to buy a six-bedroom, seven-bath, $2.8 million colonial on a third of an acre in an exclusive neighborhood. Secluded and quietly elegant, it has a spectacular garden in back, with a pool tucked in amid hundred-year-old trees. Nearby is the Naval Observatory, the British embassy and Vernon Jordan. The Clintons are so close to the vice-presidential mansion they will be able to see Allied Van Lines pull up and cart the Gore possessions...