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With the state senators, it's personal

Most people are eager for the long holiday weekend, but not the 62 New York State senators. Gov. David A. Paterson has ordered them to hold a special session each day, tying them to Albany, where they are bored and cranky and missing home. The governor is basically torturing them - which is as good a tactic as any to end the 31-31 standoff. Everything else has failed. Expressions of suffering have...

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