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...biology professor handle the pressure? On the plus side, Palestinians say that Shabir is liked and respected by Abbas and Haniyeh. He has a scientist's impartiality, and he a slight West Virginian accent. But the biologist's success will ultimately depend on how well he can convince the Bush Administration that his future Palestinian cabinet will not be dominated by Hamas. And those are skills you don't learn under the microscope...
...Allen ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of modern elections. Webb was an upstart, party-switching late entry into the race; Allen was being crowned before the race had even begun. In the middle of a mandatory paragraph allowing that Allen might not win, Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot didn't - in April 2006 - think they were going out on much of a limb in calling Allen's victory a foregone conclusion: "not when the officeholder is so full of vitality as to have a legitimate shot at a presidential nomination two years down the road. Not when...
...remains a strong favorite," said Kevin Leyden, associate professor of political science at West Virginian University in Morgantown. "Although ethics allegations have been thoroughly aired here, they haven't seemed to stick." Indeed, a Majority Watch poll of 1,003 registered voters conducted at the end of August put Mollohan up, 52% to 42%, with a margin of error of 3%. That's easy enough to explain after 24 years in Congress, said Mollohan's campaign manager, Gerry Griffith. "One man's pork is another man's job, another man's progress. People here on the ground can see, hear...
Robert Byrd, 88, became the longest-serving U.S. Senator ever last week, passing Strom Thurmond's mark of 17,326 days. The West Virginian has wielded huge influence in Washington for decades...
...Here are his career highlights, from a White House biography released when he worked in the George H.W. Bush administration: He began his journalism career as an editorial writer at the Greensboro Record in Greensboro, N.C., in 1979, then was an editorial writer at the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk from 1981-82, editorial page editor of the Daily Press in Newport News, Va., from 1982-84, deputy editorial page editor of the Detroit News, which at the time was known for having one of the most conservative editorial pages of any metropolitan dailies in the country, from 1984-87; then...