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...hasn't Formula One racing caught on in the U.S.? -Mat Smith, CARDIFF, WALESI'm a huge fan, [but] I don't know if cool technology and exotic cars are as popular in the U.S. as in Europe. We want high scoring, lots of action. Soccer is one of the biggest sports in the world, but not in the U.S. I think a lot of people look at it as sort of boring...
...real test of the gulf between McCain and conservatives - and his ability to bridge it - comes Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference in Washington. CPAC is the Lollapalooza of the Republican right, and its founder, David Keene, has been an outspoken critic of McCain's perceived anti-conservative transgressions on issues ranging from campaign finance reform (McCain's for it) to gun control (for it, in certain instances) to global warming (against it). As a result, McCain has routinely skipped the event; last year, he was booed in absentia. "He won't get a poor reception...
...Each Romney iteration has been backed by significant spending, but none has achieved mass appeal in a Republican Party that has long been dissatisfied with its candidate options. On Thursday, Romney is scheduled to try again, with a speech before the Conservative Political Action conference in Washington, the premier annual meeting of activists who largely distrust McCain. (McCain is also scheduled to speak...
...that it had paraphrased Faust using words that did not accurately reflect her statements, wrongly suggesting that public universities short on funding should focus on the social sciences rather than more costly hard science research. In fact, Faust only noted that some schools have already chosen this course of action, according to BusinessWeek. “President Faust did not, however, say such schools would be wise to use that strategy, a word we used (without quotation marks) to characterize her comments,” the editor’s note read. Deborah Stead, an editor for BusinessWeek, declined...
...their luck. The United Nations Security Council has urged all member states to back President Déby's government in the face of the rebel onslaught. "If Chad has been the victim of an aggression," Sarkozy added, "France would have - that's conditional - the means to oppose that action... Everyone had better think about that...