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...That 50-50 Senate split was a fiction in any case. Real Republicans numbered considerably fewer...
...most of the discussions taking place in Kuala Lumpur's smoke-filled rooms center on the Daim-Mahathir split. Daim is currently traveling in the U.S., following the Prime Minister's announcement in mid-April that his longtime confidant was taking an unusual three-month break from his job. When asked whether the decision to take leave was a precursor to Daim's resignation, Mahathir declined to elaborate, saying: "If you ask me and I answer, he might get angry...
...white Ford Bronco chase has hypnotized the nation. Last week the police were only calling Blake a witness, though they have not ruled him out as a suspect. They dusted him for gunpowder traces the night of the crime and found none. Still, there is some incredulity at the split-second timing of events in the tale he tells...
...basketball coach, rehired a third of the faculty and brought in 70 new teachers. All had to be willing, she says, "to give up their private time." Cockrell instituted a strict dress code and in her first year dragged 250 kids and their parents into truancy court. She also split the school into four specialized programs, each with a guidance team that would tightly track its students until they graduated...
...petting and wooing and hint dropping is getting hot and heavy in one chamber of Congress. With the Senate split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, both parties have been quietly, but intensely, looking for defectors. Everywhere you turn, one senator or another is getting the TLC treatment from the other party...