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Betsy McCaughey Ross, a former Lieutenant Governor of New York, is a fighter. When Republican Governor George Pataki dumped her as his second-term running mate in 1997, she switched parties and made a bid to unseat him. Today she is fighting another former partner, millionaire financier Wilbur Ross, whom she married in 1995 and is now divorcing. At the center of their dispute is her claim that she was forced to sign a document that is suddenly becoming an accessory to many modern marriages: a postnuptial agreement. That's right--after the vows, not before...
Starting in the No. 3 position, junior Sanaz Ghazal came close to pulling out the Crimson's first win but could not unseat Jyotsna Vasisht...
...sure, it's hard to see, 38 years after it began, what the embargo has achieved to unseat the dictator. Most Cuba analysts, as well as the dissident community based on the island itself, argue, in fact, that the embargo actually shores up Castro's power by giving his propagandists an easy excuse for the economic hardship the country has suffered since the 1991 collapse of his Soviet patron (which had subsidized Castro's revolution to the tune of some $7 billion a year). Castro has a monopoly on the media in Cuba, and has used the embargo...
Therefore, according to Cranley, the Democratic National Committee is prepared to flood money and organizational support into any race where a Democratic challenger has a chance to unseat an incumbent Republican...
...Party and the general election? Bradley ran to the left of Al Gore '69, appealing to the more traditional Democratic Party constituencies. Centering his platform around liberal themes, like universal health care and an activist approach to race relations, Bradley hoped to galvanize support amongst Democrats and independents to unseat Washington-establishment candidate Gore...