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WASHINGTON, D.C.: As Bob Dole's resignation from the Senate took effect Tuesday, the easy favorite to succeed him as Senate majority leader, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, prepared himself for a Republican Conference confirmation vote due Wednesday. Lott, who is far more conservative than Dole, has been Senate majority whip since the 1994 election, and the relationship between the top two Republican leaders in the Senate had been rocky at times. "Lott is qualitatively different from Dole," says TIME's James Carney. "He is a creature of the House that Newt Gingrich built and as a result we will...
...Potomac's Washington side, Warner remains the choice of Republican barons. Bob Dole and his likely successor as majority leader, Trent Lott, have helped him raise an intimidating war chest. On the Virginia side the party is dominated by Buchanan-style conservatives who want the senior Senator's scalp. His counterattack is to twit Miller for accepting his help two years ago and to cast his own deviations from conservative orthodoxy as principled ones. "It is the way I have lived my life," Warner says. But his advertising betrays his nervousness. A sailor in World War II and a Marine...
...SENATOR TRENT LOTT The majority whip is likely to beat out fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran to succeed Dole...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Almost before Bob Dole had finished announcing that he will resign his from the Senate on June 11, a fierce scramble began between two Mississippi Senators over who would replace him as majority leader. Majority whip Trent Lott and Republican Conference chairman Thad Cochran have both declared their candidacy. The two men have been rivals for much of their time together in Congress, which began when both were elected to the House in 1973. They have distinctly different styles and their relationship has been exacerbated by Lott's leapfrogging the senior Cochran and beating him to the position...
Quake has a similarly empty script, but by using a radically different "graphics engine," it will deliver mesmerizing 3-D modeling. Doom addict Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, has created Quake's heavy-metal sound effects. The enhancements make Quake much more realistic than Doom--and yes, bloodier. (Kids: heads fly off and roll around on the ground! Zombies actually pull chunks of flesh out of their hides and fling them at you, then explode like red water balloons when you shoot them with your nine-inch nail...