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Bobby Orr eating Hanukkah gelt in the press box? Well, stranger things happened last night at Bright Hockey Center...
...Christmas Box are going to have a very merry Christmas indeed. Not only is the tale of a tuxedo retailer who's taught a parenting lesson by his dying landlady available in a fancy gold-boxed edition, but it has also spawned dozens of look-alikes and reprints. A Stranger for Christmas, The Special Guest, Certain Poor Shepherds, Christmas in My Heart and others all have the theme, not to mention the prayer-book size, of A Christmas Box. But, thankfully, some offer more reading pleasure. Julie Salamon's The Christmas Tree is touching without being preachy, and Maeve Binchy...
Dillard-Trammell is no stranger to the tough life--one of eight children raised by a single mom on welfare, she emancipated herself at age 15. She faces another challenge in unseating popular incumbent Dan Burton in the most Republican district in Indiana. Dillard-Trammell hopes to do that by defending Social Security, the Brady Bill, education funding and minimum-wage increases, but parts with the Democrats in her stands against abortion and gay rights...
...Vietnam veteran with three Purple Hearts, Kerry is no stranger to tough fights--which is what this battle with William Weld is. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the popular two-term Senator sponsored a bill to lift the trade embargo on Vietnam. But as a friend of working families, he also sponsored the Family and Medical Leave Act. Now he must persuade voters that he has done more from the Capitol than Weld has done from the Statehouse...
Oklahoma is no stranger to boom-and-bust upheavals. Fickle forces, from the 1930s dust-bowl drought to the 1995 terrorist bombing, have etched the Sooners with a distinct skepticism. Buoyed by the growth of the service sector, Oklahoma's economy is stable, but past upheavals have reverberated in the political realm as well: in 1990 Oklahoma was one of the first states to approve term limits for state legislators. This used to be a Democratic outpost, but in the past few years Oklahoma has swung markedly to the right. And this year may mean that a Republican sweep...