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…presidential candidates Sens. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and John Edwards (N.C.) and breaking with former Vermont governor Howard Dean and Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.), both of whom want to…

Grasso Via Reuters: New York — New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso resigned his position during an emergency board meeting last night as the growing condemnation over his $140-million…

…reporters. But, she added: “Freedom is priceless.” In the same story, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Meyers–apparently unaware that for a few years in the twentieth century a hostile…

…in the Washington Post: “This president is a miserable failure,” Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.) said. “It’s incomprehensible to me that we would wind up in this situation without a…

…Limbaugh; Clan founders Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, Frank O. McCord (all veterans from the losing side of the…

…I could forgive that, but signing the Hawley-Smoot Act was the height of folly. 13. Richard Mellon Scaife: Cooky billionaire who funds just about every institute or institution that annoys…

…and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.” 3. Richard M. Nixon: Primarily for subverting Democracy by using intelligence agencies…

…after enforcing the federal laws vigorously. There’s nothing that’s not centrist about me…” …Dean, who was Vermont’s lieutenant governor in 1991 when Gov. Richard Snelling died, balanced the state’s budget…

…State Colin L. Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, have signaled to the White House that they intend to step down even if President Bush is reelected, setting the…

…Davis plan. The Texas Supreme Court currently has nine Republicans; at the time, there were at most three Democrats on the court, though I believe there was only one (Richard