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...with political guru Karl Rove. But it was telling that Santorum, who is trailing state treasurer Bob Casey by 10 points in the latest polls, scheduled no public appearances with Bush. When Cheney flew to Newark, N.J., earlier in the week to raise nearly $400,000 that state senator Tom Kean Jr. badly needs in his bid for the U.S. Senate, the candidate didn't show up until 15 minutes after the Vice President's motorcade had left. Kean blamed the state's notorious traffic for his tardiness. Local papers confirmed that there hadn't been much congestion...
Representative Tom Reynolds of New York, chairman of the G.O.P. House campaign committee, said the picture is more promising race by race than it is nationally. He told TIME only 36 to 40 races will be in play, meaning Democrats would have to keep all their competitive seats and knock off three-quarters of the Republicans. "We have more money, and their only message is slash and burn," Reynolds said...
...bats of the typically explosive Crimson lineup—and most conspicuously that of sophomore slugger Steffan Wilson—were unusually quiet through the trip to play NYIT last weekend. Sophomore Tom Stack-Babich picked up some of the slack, however, tallying two hits in each of his last three games...
...Canadians Harmeet Sooden, 32, and Jim Loney, 41, and Briton Norman Kember, 74 - were freed by British special forces and Canadian law enforcement. The raid, born of intelligence extracted from a freshly captured prisoner only three hours earlier, oddly found the kidnappers absent; alas it couldn?t save Virginian Tom Fox, 54, whose tortured body had been found on a rubbish heap earlier this month...
...meant nothing. They were still snatched, still held for months, and Fox was still brutalized and executed. With ever more chilling surety, there is barely any quarter being given in this war. Every foreigner breathed a gentle sigh upon news of their rescue, paused darkly over the fate of Tom Fox, and held one more quiet thought for American journalist Jill Carroll, 28, still out there. Somewhere. Here, even high points come with jagged edges...