参议院选举，赵小兰助丈夫一臂之力

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Jason Horowitz, 参议院选举，赵小兰助丈夫一臂之力. 纽约时报中文网, May 15, 2014
cn.nytimes.com/usa/20140515/c15mcconnell/

, which is translated from

Jason Horowitz, Girding for a Fight; A key surrogate for a husband likely to face a female opponent, McConnell Enlists His Wife. New York Times, May 15, 2014.

Note: On or about Oct 12, 2012 the Chao family gave $40 million to Harvard Business School, to construct Chao Center (in honor of the matriarch, who had been deceased in 2007) and to establish the Ruth Mulan CHU 朱木蘭 and James Si-Cheng CHAO 趙錫成 Family Fellowship Fund (a scholarship).
(a) Remarks by The Honorable Elaine L Chao. Harvard Business School, Oct 12, 2012.
www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/chaoremarks.aspx

Mr Chao the father, while in Taiwan, “scored #1 in the National Examination shattering all previous records [1958 年特種考試 {特考 for short) 成績破記錄].”
(b) James SC Chao is founder--in 1964, months after he received a master’s from St John’s University at New York City, of Foremost group 福茂集團, based in NYC. He 进私立勤业中学（今嘉定一中）读书, matriculated at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1946-1949), abd, in 2008, Nyack College conferred upon him the honorary Doctorate of Letters Degree.
(c) Ruth Mulan Chu at the age of fifty- three (“paid notice: death” in New York Times said “51”), she earned a Master’s degree in Asian Literature and history from St. John’s University. Apparently neither parent received a bachelor’s degree.
(d) Elaine Chao (1853-  (age 61); born in Taiwan; BA in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979; married McConnell in 1993)

Her husband Mitch McConnell (born 1942 (age 72); US senator from Kentucky from 1985)
(e) Opinion polls in Kentucky shows Mr McConnell and his potential Democratic challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes, are running neck and neck. (Primaries not held yet.)