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Once they had recruited the right people, they needed the right message, and here it was the Democrats who thought they had the upper hand. On July 19, Frist's committee hosted a retreat for donors at the West Virginia resort Greenbrier. That day alone, the stock market slid 390 points; the White House was bracing for the mid-August restatement of corporate income, which was expected to increase pressure on Bush to crack down on the kind of people who had assembled at the resort. "It felt like a funeral," recalls Bainwol. Democrats were calling for the scalp...
...BALLAD OF BEN (COOTER) JONES, FROM THE DUKES OF HAZZARD, WHO LOST HIS CONGRESSIONAL RACE IN VIRGINIA BY 40 POINTS AFTER MOVING THERE WHEN HE LOST HIS SEAT IN GEORGIA...
...first time in nine years, the Harvard Men’s Rugby team will travel to Virginia Beach this April to compete in the prestigious national Sweet Sixteen tournament...
...DIED. LORD HASLAM, 79, working class mining engineer who rose to the top of his profession as chairman of state-run monoliths British Coal and British Steel; in Virginia Water, England. Admired by miners for his self-deprecatory manner, Haslam was made a life peer...
Pamela K. Porter from Logan High School in West Virginia said that her students “think the school is too expensive.” When I read to her directly from Harvard’s admissions literature, however, she reacted with audible surprise to the generosity of our financial aid program. She said that neither she nor her students had any idea so much money was available. “We have some students that would fit in there that would like to go,” she said with her new awareness...