McSally, who previously represented a swing district based in Tucson for two terms, has spent heavily attacking Ward and winning over GOP primary voters with television ads tying herself to an unpopular president.
Thousands of children whose parents have been sentenced to inappropriately long terms have spent their childhoods in the costly, often callous foster care system.
He received a five-year probationary term, but has spent a year in jail for violation of probation.
In his present term, Moezi has spent over 4 years in prison, during which he has been put in solitary confinement, is routinely beaten and has suffered psychological and physical tortured at the hands of government officials belonging to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.
In rugby terms, he has spent four years growing up in public.
It will take the bulk of Mr. Bush's term before he has spent as much time in the White House as Dick Cheney, the vice president-elect; Paul H. O'Neill, Mr. Bush's choice for treasury secretary; Gen. Colin L. Powell, selected for secretary of state; or Donald H. Rumsfeld, the choice for defense, all former White House staff members.
White, middle-class financial criminals are unlikely to ever receive a prison term, whereas Sha has spent almost half of his life behind bars, including a single 16-year stretch.
But Mr. Franks, a four-term congressman who has spent a lifetime in politics, bristles at the idea that voters could be beguiled by a candidate's platform alone.
In contrast, Britain's system gave strong incentives to the grid operator, National Grid, to invest; in relative terms, the company has spent ten times as much to upgrade the power grid in England and Wales as its counterparts in America did in the 1990s.
When Democrats ask him on the trail why they should choose a one-term senator who has spent most of his life as a trial lawyer rather than a candidate with more government experience, he says his roots give him an understanding of working folks' problems that career politicians lack.
