A state appeals court has reversed itself and let stand a Democratic Congressional primary election in which Representative Ciro D. Rodriguez of San Antonio lost by 58 votes.
Mr. Obama's candidacy also played a role in another race, in which Representative John Lewis, the civil rights leader, faced challengers for the first time since 1992.
We are looking at today's state legislative primary in Goose Creek, S.C., in which Representative Shirley Hinson is being challenged by her estranged husband, Jimmy.
The earlier map, in which Representative Melvin Watt, a Democrat, was first elected in 1992, had been thrown out by the Supreme Court because it was not compact and it assembled black voters scattered along an Interstate highway.
With Aleksandr Yakovlevich Tairov, director of the Kamerny Theatre, Meyerhold developed the Formalist style, in which representative types replaced individual characters amid Constructivist settings of gaunt scaffolding supporting bare platforms, with every strut and bolt exposed to view.
At the trial, jurors were shown a video from the 2008 Congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball in which Representative Elijah Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, read an affidavit by Laura Pettitte, the wife of former Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte.
