Word: stakes
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Richard Rosenthal was mentally insane when he beat his wife to death and then impaled her heart and lungs on a backyard stake, a defense attorney argued yesterday in Middlesex Superior Court...
...four years as a legislative aide to now-majority leader Trent Lott, makes no bones about his ties to Mississippians in power--including Lott, G.O.P. chair Haley Barbour and Senator Thad Cochran. But Pickering is also keen to make his mark as his own man. Though not afraid to stake out a position on issues--he is pro-life, anti-gun control, supports a balanced-budget amendment, Dole's tax cut, welfare reform and the military's ban on homosexuals--he considers the TIME/CQ questionnaire too hypothetical to answer...
...life" in the Seventh. She signed a "taxpayer-protection" pledge to fight income tax increases, and supports increased choice in education. Birtley is pro-choice, but says she would have supported the ban on partial-birth abortion if it had included a provision for women whose lives were at stake...
...president and CEO of Island Harbor Development Corp.--who also has a stake in the Carolina Panthers pro-football team--Close calls himself a fiscal conservative and social moderate. He advocates campaign finance reform that would limit spending to $1 per constituent and eliminate PAC contributions, which he does not accept. Whether or not Close makes age an issue, Strom Thurmond did enter the Senate the year after the challenger's birth...
...only good news is that some of this disinterest may be temporary. "The model of a good news consumer is a person with a home, a family and a stake in the community," says Woodhull, which means that today's young Americans may tune in to regular news 10 years down the road. But, she cautions, news outlets "have to lay the groundwork now." Yet, with the exception of a few efforts like the Boston Globe's solid but irritatingly titled Gen X column, "Whatever," newspapers have been slow to reach out to young readers. Television executives, on the other...