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...room designated for his or her candidate. Any group with less than 15% of the attendees is considered nonviable and has to disband. Then the realignment period begins, in which everyone walks around and tries to persuade the disbanded people, and anyone else, to join them. The classic way to do that is to bribe them by making them delegates to the convention. That's like a trip to Vegas to these people...
Ford is rolling out five new cars. The Mustang takes on a retro look that borrows more heavily from its classic, late-'60s designs. Loyal fans could easily drive sales as high as 200,000 a year once production begins this fall. It's a modest goal for the former blockbuster, but as Ford says, "We can't rely on any home runs to pull us through...
Since then Le Carre has fared somewhat better with critics, but there will be readers of his new book who will agree with his old headmaster. Le Carre is best known for classic cold war espionage thrillers like The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. But the cold war is long over, and at 72, he has written a searing, startling novel that sweeps through much of the 20th century and up to the present conflict with Iraq, and it may shock his devoted fans. Absolute Friends (Little, Brown; 455 pages) is a work...
...Over the years, Ted drifts into life as a minor diplomat, and a decade later, he re-encounters Sasha at an official reception. Now an East German functionary, Sasha proposes an intelligence operationsmuggling state secrets to the West under cover of Ted's menial diplomatic duties. It's a classic Le Carre caper--fans will recognize it as a variation on one he used in A Perfect...
...This is classic populism--"the people versus the powerful"--and four years after Al Gore unsuccessfully ran on that slogan, populism is at the heart of not just Dean's campaign but almost every Democratic presidential candidacy. Senator John Edwards puts the case most elegantly: "This is an Administration that rewards wealth, not work." Dick Gephardt is the protectionist tribune of the antique industrial unions. Aristocratic John Kerry rails effectively against "Benedict Arnold" corporations that set up headquarters overseas to avoid paying taxes at home. Even mild, moderate Joe Lieberman has a tax plan to soak the rich and further...