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Senate and AG seats are up

(Boston Globe, 11/7/06)
US Senate Democrat Edward M. Kennedy, 74, has served 44 years in the US Senate and has championed minimum wage and healthcare legislation. Republican challenger Kenneth G. Chase, 45, runs a language school and has made stricter immigration controls a focus of his run to unseat Kennedy.
 GOP struggles to fill out the ticket (By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff, 3/24/06)
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