Voters in San Jose, California's third city, recently approved cuts to pension benefits for city workers by 70% to 30% after an energetic campaign by the Democratic mayor, Chuck Reed.

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Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues.

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He is also scheduled to visit Iraq with two Senate colleagues, Democrat Jack Reed and Republican Chuck Hagel.

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Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, and Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat.

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