Word: virginian
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Warner gained national celebrity when he married Elizabeth Taylor, but he has won more statewide elections than any Virginian this century. He faced his loudest opposition in the primary from conservatives who accused him of backstabbing the party when he didn't support its 1994 senatorial candidate, Oliver North. Warner said he put "principle before politics" and went on to wollop the challenger...
Despite a career spent in government, colleges and think tanks, Miller portrays himself as the pickup-driving, gun-owning Virginian whose onetime political benefactor betrayed the state's true Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding...
...belief that when it was being considered, Jefferson was wary of the idea of a strong central government. Initially, he was critical of the proposed Constitution because it contained no guarantees of civil rights. No doubt Jefferson's criticism influenced the turnabout on this issue of fellow Virginian James Madison, who was a principal drafter of the Constitution and who later proposed the Bill of Rights. ROGER W. SEILER South Nyack, New York...
DIED. DOUG MCCLURE, 59; former broncobuster and star of TV westerns such as The Virginian and The Overland Trail; of lung cancer; in Sherman Oaks, California...
...However, Virginian Jordanna M. Brodsky '98 is voting for Robb mainly to keep North out of office...