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...awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week, it ended a feud that threatened not only to split the party but also to scuttle Democrats' chances of keeping the seat of retiring Senator Bennett Johnston. A Landrieu win is a crucial part of any scenario in which the Democrats retake the Senate...
...poll shows President Clinton at 52 percent, Dole at 35 percent and Perot at 6 percent. Dole has spent the last two days canvassing the South, an area that has been solidly Republican but where Clinton is leading in many states. The Dole campaign, which worries that Perot will split the anti-Clinton vote, felt Perot's withdrawal could tip the scales their way in key battleground states such as Texas and Florida. But polls show Perot supporters back Clinton in similar proportions to the general electorate. -- Josh Dubow
...Thus, his signing of the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA) was entirely consistent with his career and should have surprised no one. However, Clinton recognized that, irrespective of the merits of the law, it was being passed primarily to give Republican candidates a "wedge" issue with which to split the electorate off from their Democratic opponents...
Adam Green is the split-personality Capt'n Neato-Man, who switches personae from mama's boy to bully to sexy, self-assured superhero in the three-way tug-of-war over "Horatio." At the heart of the story is the question, "Will Larry agree to give up his identity and become 'Horatio'?" Towards the end, the script dips into banality, pitting Larry against the Cap'n in the worn-out opposition between the "Get a real life" and "Live your dream" schools of thought. Overall, however, great lines ("You can't have sex without love!" "What are you, kidding...
...government department now shares the Littauer Center with the Department of Economics, which has forced both departments to split up in recent years as they have grown...