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...intangible thing we’ve had all this time has been wanting to tie the record at six, then break it at seven,” Wilson said. “We’ve had something to strive for. It will be interesting to see how it works out next year...
...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...
...report's most controversial recommendations have been widely known and discussed for months: drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere; increase reliance on nuclear power; tie research money for renewable energy, such as wind and solar, to revenues from aforementioned drilling. The ANWR debate is expected to crumble under the weight of congressional environmentalists; the waste-related risks of nuclear power plants - compared with the global warming threat - may look like the lesser of two evils. Renewable energy, which now composes an eye-popping 2% of the nation's energy grid, needs a heck of a lot more...
...suspects this year's network tie-in draws - Jerri and Colby from Survivor II - might have the youthful moxie to blend into their surroundings a little better. And yet it's doubtful whether any imported stars from another medium would be as big at E3 as the game world's own celebrities - the uber-designers...
...Then, if McVeigh does okay an appeal, says Goldfarb, the ball is back in his lawyers? court. "The first thing McVeigh?s lawyers have to do is tie any arguments they have to the substance of the new documents. They could claim the substance of the documents might have changed the substance of the defense or the case, or the strategy of the trial...