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• Last week Obama called for legislation while flanked by 21 mothers who have lost children to gun violence. "I haven't forgotten those kids," he declared then.
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SC's Sanford, seeking to make political comeback, faces Colbert Busch for open House seat
• MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) -- The race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat has turned into the big-name contest that political junkies were hoping for.
• Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican trying to make a comeback after his political career was derailed by his admission of an extramarital affair, faces Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert, in a May 7 special election.
• Sanford defeated former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic in the GOP primary runoff Tuesday, clearing another hurdle in his quest for political redemption. He finished first last month in a 16-candidate field in the primary in the state's 1st Congressional District, which runs northeast along the coast from Hilton Head Island through Charleston and to the Georgetown County line.
• Colbert Busch -- who once worked in Washington as an intern for then-U.S. Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C. -- has had a lifelong dream of running for public office. The businesswoman has said jobs is a top priority for her campaign. Colbert Busch has worked in the shipping industry for years and is now on a leave of absence from her position as the director of business development for Clemson University's Wind Turbine Drive Testing Facility.
• Last month, she easily defeated perennial candidate Ben Frasier to win the Democratic nomination in the Republican-leaning district.
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AP Essay: Cyprus shaped his childhood, and now he watches, dolefully, as it struggles
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Nicosia, Cyprus, 1973: Riding with my parents and two elder siblings in a taxi, the kind of large Mercedes favored in the Middle East. The driver gestures to an alley where you can just make out people behind barricades.
• "Turks," he spits derisively.
• We keep quiet. We hadn't been brought up to think of any people that way. Later that day, my father tells us that things don't bode well for Cyprus, a place we had been coming to for three summer holidays and that he visited frequently on busi (Continued on page 29)
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