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...name will remain on the ballot despite his death. If he were somehow to defeat Ashcroft--the race had been very close--a series of odd but formidable events would unfold. On Jan. 3, Ashcroft's Senate term would expire. Missouri law would require the seat to be declared "vacant," since the victor in the election would be dead. The state's interim Governor, Roger Wilson, who took office last week upon Carnahan's death, would appoint an interim Senator, who would stand for re-election in two years. On Jan. 8, a new Governor will be sworn...
...name will remain on the ballot despite his death. If he were somehow to defeat Ashcroft - the race had been very close - a series of odd but formidable events would unfold. On Jan. 3, Ashcroft's Senate term would expire. Missouri law requires the seat to be declared "vacant," since the victor in the election would be dead. The state's interim Governor, Roger Wilson, who took office last week upon Carnahan's death, would appoint an interim Senator, who would stand for re-election in two years. On Jan. 8, a new Governor will be sworn in as well...
...nine year old sister with a car. He is plucked out of obscurity to occupy the foreground of a blood red stage, where he speaks for two hours on the topic of his sister, his family and his dissatisfaction with life in general, interrupted sporadically by dialogue largely vacant of meaning. The figure of the Daughter haunts the Son, often twinning his gestures or acting out key moments in the accident...
...trying to win a difficult campaign against the popular Lieberman. But if Lieberman is sworn in as vice president, he must resign from the Senate. Under Connecticut law, his successor would be named by the governor, a Republican who will surely name a fellow party member to the vacant spot. A new election for the seat will be held in 2002, the next regular election year...
...having never staged a Games, Sydney was, like all the other first-time hosts, wondering where its visitors were on the eve of the big cauldron-lighting. Hotel rooms were vacant, seats were unused at the opera, street prices were dropping for ping-pong prelims, angst was rising. "Some now claim we never should've done it," said the clerk at Gowings as he brushed my new Akubra bushman's hat. (You'll like it, honey. Really.) "Bloody 'ell," he said, "the sports 'aven't even begun! Look around; it's already been great for the country. Those...