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During debates, interviews, stump speeches, on the trail of one of the nastiest U.S. Senate contests I can remember in my home state of Illinois â€" and that’s saying a lot â€"  Republican Mark Kirk almost always landed a bull’s-eye when he took aim at Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. His three-word bullet was Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a “outfit” guy to whom Broadway Bank, when Giannoulias was a senior loan officer there, loaned millions. If the bad guy’s name had been, say, Michael Jay Graham, Giannoulias might be heading to Washington.

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