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...worst. As early as July Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell grimly acknowledged: "When you look at our numbers, holding our own is the best we can hope for." And that was before five long-serving Senators recently announced their retirements, many of them in purple states such as Virginia and Colorado that may be difficult for the G.O.P. to defend...
...other states where the G.O.P. has had success in recruiting promising candidates are Virginia, where Representative Tom Davis and former Governor Jim Gilmore have both expressed interest in John Warner's seat, and Nebraska, where former Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has thrown his hat in the ring to succeed Chuck Hagel. Johanns is also one of the only candidates that President Bush might be able to help this cycle. "The President is well received in Nebraska; I would be honored to have him here," Johanns said. On the other hand, even strong Republican candidates may not be enough if former...
...Overall, Cook predicts a Democratic pickup of up to five seats with Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Maine at the top of his list. New Mexico, he said, becomes a Democratic shoe-in if presidential hopeful New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson decides after the early primaries to shift gears and run for the Senate seat being vacated by outgoing Senator Pete Domenici. Things start to get dicey in Minnesota, where the strongest Dem candidate appears to be comedian Al Franken...
...opening faculty meeting in the fall of 1960, the Concord Academy teachers were alerted to the arrival of a new freshman boarder from a small town in Virginia. She was only 12 years old, about to be 13. It seemed likely that she would be homesick, unsure of herself, slow to make friends. Drew Gilpin—known in high school simply as Drewdie—was none of those things...
...victory. In the next round, Kumar and Ermakov lost to a very strong team from Mississippi, 8-4. That duo, Erling Tveit and Jonas Berg, who are ranked No. 20 , made it to the tournament’s championship match before losing to the top-ranked squad from Virginia. Kumar and Ermakov’s ability to prevail over some of the country’s strongest doubles pairs bodes well for their prospects at the top of Harvard’s doubles rotation for the remainder of the year. —JONATHAN B. STEINMAN