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...self-effacing confidence and good looks charm the crowds, and the fans he has won have made the 42-year-old Chicago lawyer and three-term state senator the hottest property in this year's Senate races. Obama may be on his way to replacing retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald...
DIED. VANCE HARTKE, 84, three-term Democratic Senator from Indiana; of a heart attack; in Falls Church, Va. A populist and passionate liberal, Hartke was known in the Senate for his early opposition to the war in Vietnam. In 1966, more than two years before America's deep divisions over the war would become dramatically clear at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he was one of six Senators to draft a letter to President Johnson, his onetime mentor in the Senate, seeking a suspension of bombing in North Vietnam...
Both Tauzin and Breaux play it cool when asked about their interest in the job. "No one has told me Jack is leaving, and I won't believe he's going until he does," Breaux told TIME. But the three-term centrist Democratic Senator may not run for re-election in 2004, especially if a Democrat wins the Louisiana Governor's race this fall, thus ensuring that a Democrat would fill out his term. Said a spokesman for Tauzin, who insists he is running in '04: "No job has been offered, and we all know Jack's going...
...Peterson: And one of these gentlemen - and they are prominent people - he's a three-term council member up there and an attorney, and they saw her and they know her and the police have disregarded this. If it doesn't fit their theory, by God, they don't want to investigate it. I just can't be any more emphatic than that. And we're gonna pursue this thing...
Loretta Sanchez, 42, is a three-term democrat from orange county, Calif.; starting in January, her little sister Linda, 33 (below right), will represent a district in Los Angeles County, making the Sanchezes the first sister act in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives. And as they confided to TIME's Josh Tyrangiel, they plan to get an apartment together in Washington...