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Perhaps Pike will have a different fate. For one thing, its alums include Strom Thurmond, Ted Koppel and S. Truett Cathy, the founder and CEO of Chick-Fil-A. But it’s not just the illustrious past of PKA that has attracted over a dozen Harvard students to its Cambridge colony. Harvard’s PKA, which joins four male and two female Greek organizations on campus, promises to be a place for all party-seekers...
When Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), 98, briefly collapsed in the Senate chamber on Tuesday, Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a heart surgeon, came to the rescue. The Senate recessed...
...find out, many years down the road, that our politicians took actions in this situation that we would not have supported had we known of them, it will already be far too late to force them out of office (unless they’re Strom Thurmond...
...from the Senate? The Texas Republican announced Tuesday that he'll call it quits in 2002 after spending 18 years in the Senate and six years in the House. He's the third senior Republican senator who's decided not to seek re-election. Ninety-eight-year-old Strom Thurmond of South Carolina won't run again and North Carolina's Jesse Helms, who's in poor health, announced last month that this would be his last term. Gramm, who's 59, came to his decision after "a long and difficult period of soul searching," he says. The congressional apostle...
...grabs while the Democrats have only 14. The Republican leadership claims those numbers aren't as bad as they look because they believe that more Democratic incumbents will face serious challenges. Gramm's seat, for example, will likely stay in the GOP column, as will Helms' and Thurmond's. Even so, Republicans are making very private predictions that their party could suffer a net loss of four more Senate seats. "We may not be returning to the majority for a long time," says one seasoned GOP senator...