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Democrat Wallace Wilkinson easily won election as Kentucky's governor yesterday night while fellow Democrat Ray Mabus held a steady lead over Republican Jack Reed in Mississippi's statehouse race in off-year elections...
...Wilkinson, a 45-year-old college dropout who made millions as a businessman, won his race in Kentucky with 499,632 votes or 65 percent to 271,187 votes or 35 percent for GOP state Rep. John Harper, with 99 percent of precincts reporting...
...Republican has been elected governor of Kentucky in 20 years, and voters appeared to be granting Wilkinson's wish for more than 62.8 percent of the vote and the greatest victory margin in state history. Wilkinson asked for the margin to increase his clout with the legislature...
...sensible way of getting about in the strangling, traffic- plagued city. Bicycles have long been a major mode of transport in Europe and Asia; there are as many as 230 million of them in China. Now they have taken to U.S. streets with a vengeance. According to Bill Wilkinson, director of the Bicycle Federation of America, roughly 2 million people commute to work on bikes, up from approximately 500,000 a decade...
Just as the moral center of Hugo's Les Miserables is Valjean, so the driving force of the stage show is Colm Wilkinson. An Irish singer largely untrained as an actor until he originated the role in London, Wilkinson, 43, has a superb pop-rock voice, whether in the assertive Who Am I or the wistful Bring Him Home. Unexpectedly, he encompasses the outsize moral stature of Valjean, making believable both his general saintliness and his outbursts of animal ferocity. Only one other member of the original cast is in the U.S. company: Frances Ruffelle, who as a tomboyish adolescent...