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...When gas was selling at $1 a gal. two summers ago, we didn't make Strom Thurmond pretend to hear people testify about that. We were happy, running through gasoline-spewing sprinklers and drinking gasoline wine in a gasoline haze. And like the ant in the fable about the ant and the bug that wasn't an ant, we should have been saving. As I learned the hard way, though, saving hundreds of gallons of gas in those little red plastic containers in your parents' garage isn't the safest way to launch your investing career...
When gas was selling at $1 a gal. two summers ago, we didn't make Strom Thurmond pretend to hear people testify about that. We were happy, running through gasoline-spewing sprinklers and drinking gasoline wine in a gasoline haze. And like the ant in the fable about the ant and the bug that wasn't an ant, we should have been saving. As I learned the hard way, though, saving hundreds of gallons of gas in those little red plastic containers in your parents' garage isn't the safest way to launch your investing career...
...tenure. Those who want to see Washington playing a leading role, in consultation with its allies, on the international stage, will be relieved at what Senator Jeffords has wrought. Then again, they could be plunged right back into their nightmare if Senator Robert Torricelli is impeached. But Strom Thurmond's not going to be in office forever? So many butterflies, so many earthquakes...
...stakes couldn't be higher. The Republicans and Majority Leader Trent Lott now control the Senate because Vice President Dick Cheney casts the tie- breaking vote. But 98-year-old Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who spends many weekends in the hospital, is looking increasingly frail. The governor from his state is a Democrat and likely to appoint a Democrat to fill the seat if Thurmond leaves early. That would mean the Democrats control the Senate with a 51-49 majority, making Sen. Tom Daschle the majority leader...
...Thurmond goes, Lott needs another Republican to keep his job as majority leader. Daschle is in the hunt for a Republican to trump Lott if Thurmond hangs on, or to play defense if Lott manages to convince a Democrat to switch. Here are some of the Senators in their sights...