The conversion led him to have second thoughts about the bawdy party-boy image the band portrayed in the 1980s, he told the Boston Globe in 1998.

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But two races that I would say that it's clear that the Republicans are having second thoughts about is Conrad Burns, the senator in Montana, and Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island.

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But the revised security plan reveals no such second thoughts by the White House.

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