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...former Majority Leader Trent Lott became the seventh Republican to announce plans to depart the Senate. The move has fanned Democratic hopes of a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in that chamber and GOP fears that the party is in a downward spiral...
...Gracie Mansion, he asked Judith Nathan, his mistress at the time, to move in with them. A judge finally had to intervene and bar Nathan from the place. Despite the indecent manner in which Giuliani treated his family, the professional moralists in the Republican Party--like Robertson--will vote...
...weeks, Musharraf has restored some of the rights he snatched when he declared on Nov. 3 what amounted to martial law. He even let former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif return from exile; he pledged to hold elections soon. But democracy is about more than casting a vote. It's about building lasting institutions such as a free press, an effective legislature and, most important, an independent judiciary...
...White House. She joined the Giuliani campaign in March and soon earned an employee-of-the-month award. The New Hampshire native won't make it home for the primary. "I'll be stationed in New York," she says. "But I'll definitely remind them to vote up there." There may have been countless cups of coffee since March, but the battle's only just begun...
Even though at this point there do not appear to be enough legislators backing passage, Gutierrez says he wants the Colombia FTA to at least be given a chance for a vote. "We can get the votes for Colombia," he said. But by his own admission it will take "a lot of hard work and a lot of convincing." And it will probably take a few more visits to that hilltop library...