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...openly gay state assemblyman who was the main backer. "He is pandering to the far right." Indeed, with the Governor's popularity rating down to 36% and Democrats alienated by his attacks on public-service unions, Schwarzenegger is now "more dependent on his Republican base than ever," says Allan Hoffenblum, a G.O.P. strategist in Los Angeles...
...mightiest of Republicans: the Bush family. Instead of supporting her campaign, top Republican officials have been trying to kill it, first by begging retired General Tommy Franks to enter the race and--after he turned them down--courting someone with almost zero name recognition, Florida house speaker Allan Bense, to run against Harris, who is now in her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Florida Governor Jeb Bush has made several recruiting calls to Bense, who headed to Washington last week where he was serenaded by a powerful trio--the President's top political adviser Karl Rove, Republican...
...minute service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some 20,000 blacks filled the streets. As the flower-draped coffin was loaded into the hearse, they raised their fists in the black-power salute of the A.N.C. and chanted in the Xhosa language, "She is a soldier." Said the Rev. Allan Boesak: "Molly continues in death what she did all her life. She brings us together...
...Maclean's, a Canadian newsweekly, only 37% are satisfied with the Prime Minister's performance, vs. nearly 60% a year earlier, when he had been in office only three months. "The biggest challenge facing the government is classical leadership, to define where the government wants to go," says Allan Gregg, whose Decima Research, Ltd., conducted the Maclean's poll...
...Test cricket but still in England's one-day squad. "This English team has some spine and could surprise a lot of you," Gough said. "It's a big test but they're giving themselves a chance. That's a start." Australia has held the Ashes since 1989, when Allan Border arrived in England determined to bury his team's reputation as amiable pushovers. Captain Grumpy banned wives and girlfriends from making the trip and dodged any socializing with the opposition. During a match early in the tour, England batsman Robin Smith, suffering a stomach upset, asked Border whether...