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...Finally this is the boogie to the middle," says a longtime Republican strategist, who along with others has been worried that Bush's efforts to galvanize his socially conservative base by pushing, say, the gay-marriage ban, would permanently alienate moderate voters. In the run-up to the G.O.P. Convention, Bush will spend so much time with his former bitter primary rival John McCain, the party's moderate icon, that it may very well look as if Bush is running with the wrong white-haired, balding guy. McCain is scheduled to stump by himself for Bush in Florida next week...
...Martin Booth's first day in Hong Kong in 1952, his parents took him to lunch at the British naval base where his father was about to start work. There the 7-year-old was confronted with a frightening plateful of leggy crustaceans unknown back in England. As he recounts in Gweilo (Doubleday; 342 pages), a memoir of his first three years in the former crown colony, a kindly naval officer briefed him on local customs: "Whenever someone offers you something to eat, accept it. That's being polite." Booth followed the advice, inhaling more exotic food, culture and adventure...
...involving the treatment of Iraqi civilian prisoners. The four were suspended pending an investigation into their "judgment on how detainees should be treated," according to a Danish military spokesman. The case stems from an ongoing investigation into charges that another officer, Captain Annemette Hommel, mistreated Iraqis at the Danish base north of Basra. Hommel was formally charged with negligence. She denies any wrongdoing. Unwelcome Guests SUDAN Tens of thousands of people marched in Khartoum in a state-sponsored protest, above, against possible Western intervention in the war-torn Darfur region. The protesters said they would launch a jihad if Western...
While Bush's base is reinforced concrete, Kerry's still looks shaky in places. Kerry leads Bush among Hispanic voters but has not secured the 2-to-1 ratio Democrats have achieved in the past. In a more worrisome sign, Kerry is winning only 75% of African Americans in a three-way contest, a good dozen points short of what he needs...
Despite the fan base cultivated by the new medium, person-to-person sharing quickly emerged as a threat to the music it popularized...