Word: vermonter
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...committee, "The reason it won't come up is because he has been a member of the committee for a long period of time, and he's showed a great deal of impartiality. And he doesn't hold any of those views." Even the committee's chairman, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, welcomed Sessions: "I get along well with him. I've always kept my word to him and he's always kept his word to me, and that's the most important thing...
...tent," new Democrat Arlen Specter lamented on Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. Also on Sunday, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, one of two remaining Northeastern GOP moderates in Congress, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that Specter's loss, eight years after the defection of Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords, shows how little the party has heeded the warning signs. "There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority while shrinking our ideological confines and continuing to retract into a regional party," Snowe wrote. "Ideological purity is not the ticket back to the promised...
...Suez Canal. Egged on by generous ransom payments, they're holding more than 300 sailors hostage. Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, was the first one taken off a U.S. vessel. A Red Sox fan, a family man, a good-humored snowboarder, a pillar of his Vermont village who had the courage to offer himself as a hostage in exchange for the safety of his unarmed crew, Phillips is not the sort of person Americans are content to see bound, mocked and threatened in the most lawless corner of the planet. This was a hostage crisis. Had the kidnappers made...
...Crimson women finished second over the weekend at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s Championship in Burlington, Vt., an event co-hosted by the University of Vermont and Dartmouth...
...League Rookie of the Week after she hit .438 in Dartmouth’s five games last week. As Harvard has been heating up, the Big Green has cooled off a bit, splitting a four-game series with third-place Yale last week and dropping a game to Vermont yesterday. But with so much riding on this series, it will be a matter of which team has the focus to grind out the necessary victories.If the Crimson wins the division title, it will do so Sunday at home on Senior Day, giving the weekend an added significance for Bock...