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| | Licht and Weygand: Mortal combat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The competition is all that more intense in the high-stakes battle for the Senate, where a handful of men -- John Chafee, John O. Pastore, Claiborne Pell, Theodore F. Green and Jack Reed -- have represented Rhode Island for the last 50 years. |
 | | It was the same Frank Licht who upset John Chafee, the three-term governor, in 1968 -- an experience that left his nephew, recently graduated from Harvard, with the belief "that politics is the art of the impossible. |
 | | Licht, 52, who amassed a small fortune during his hiatus from politics as managing director of one of the state's largest law firms, Tillinghast, Licht and Semonoff, is nonetheless accustomed to being an underdog, and he imbues his campaign narratives with a mix of unabashed sentimentality and old-school Democratic themes. |
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