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...recapture the Senate in November, has always been the favorite of the White House, which believes he has the political savvy and media skills to repair the damage from Lott's statement and push Bush's aggressive agenda in the next Congress. But Frist will first have to re-establish goodwill with Pennsylvania Avenue. --By Douglas Waller
...malls and megastores, Tomball is at the outer edge of Houston's suburban sprawl. But when Watkins was growing up, it was a no-stoplight town with an oil derrick on each corner. Her ancestors were among the hardy German immigrants who descended in the mid-1800s and helped establish the Lutheran church her mother Shirley Klein Harrington still attends each Sunday. It seemed as if Watkins either knew or was related to everyone in town: One uncle owned the grocery store. Another ran the funeral home. Her aunt was her second-grade teacher...
Moore said that the high number of road games the team played early on provides both good experience and helps to establish Harvard as a legitimate contender...
DIED. ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI, 84, whimsical patriarch of modern Italian design whose playful, highly stylized lamps, vacuum cleaners, ashtrays and other domestic objects helped establish Italy's postwar reputation as a design innovator; in Milan. Castiglioni created some 200 items, including the Arco lamp (shown), an arching alternative to a ceiling light, and the Mezzadro, a tractor seat stool...
...WHITE MAN WINS AGAIN. While most Indians continue to live in poverty, many non-Indian investors are extracting hundreds of millions of dollars--sometimes in violation of legal limits--from casinos they helped establish, either by taking advantage of regulatory loopholes or cutting backroom deals. More than 90% of the contracts between tribes and outside gaming-management companies operate with no oversight. That means investors' identities are often secret, as are their financial arrangements and their share of the revenue. Whatever else Congress had in mind when it passed the regulatory act, presumably the idea was not to line...