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...George W. Bush's slim but unblinking lead in the national polls since the debates. Investors in index component Microsoft, mindful of which administration owns the Justice suit, have pushed the stock up from $48 to past $70 in the last three weeks. Pharmaceutical stocks, HMOs, defense and tobacco stocks (Bush is against that suit too) are all perking up. Friday's stumble in those sectors, after such a promising week, was being blamed in part on the after-hours announcement Thursday of Bush's DUI conviction. Call it a profit warning...
...need education programs for younger students as well as programs in college," Weschler wrote in an e-mail message. "The younger one begins to use drugs, alcohol or tobacco, the greater the problems...
Meanwhile, down in the valley, the newly widowed Lusa Maluf Landowski--"My mom's parents were Palestinians, and my dad's were Jews from Poland"--struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over...
Conrad Burns, G.O.P. Senator from Montana, epitomizes rough-edged, Western independence. A tobacco-chewing conservative, he picks his teeth with a pocket knife and skewers liberal dogma with equal relish. He sees nothing wrong with snowmobiles in national forests, thinks drug companies aren't getting a fair shake and leads Congress in donations from Big Tobacco...
...that should make him unbeatable in a state with more than its share of crusty independents (and tobacco chewers). But Burns has just a narrow lead over Brian Schweitzer, a wealthy farmer riding a wave of resentment over the high cost of prescription drugs. Schweitzer, 45, first caught Montanans' attention by leading busloads of seniors on drug-buying trips across the Canadian border, where prescription drugs can be half as costly as in the U.S. Now Burns hands out packets showing measures he backs to lower drug costs for the elderly...