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Meanwhile, Stills was amused to hear of a pundit’s primary-season analogy comparing Kerry to John Lennon, Sen. John R. Edwards to Paul McCartney and former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean to George Harrison—but troubled to hear that commentator’s equation of Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich with final Beatle Ringo Starr...
...devilishly complex. Changes in international law, sovereignty and geopolitics have left a murky situation. That Australia is rich and East Timor is poor counts for nothing. Yet the new nation's recent tragic history - neglected Portuguese colony and brutalized invaded territory - gives the talks a profound moral dimension. John Howard's government spent considerable political capital and diplomatic effort on Timorese independence; it sent 5,700 troops and led the U.N.'s interfet peacekeeping force. "Having helped to liberate East Timor, Australia is obliged to see it succeed," says a western diplomat in Dili. Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown went...
...baby mice (known as pups) survived. One was sacrificed for genetic analysis. The other, dubbed Kaguya, grew up, mated the usual way and produced two litters. Despite the fact that Kaguya bore offspring, "we really don't know how healthy she is," says Marisa Bartolomei, an imprinting expert and Howard Hughes investigator at the University of Pennsylvania...
...increasingly liberal policy at home, one less beholden to business interests and friendlier to workers and the environment than the conservative wing of his party would have liked. After he left the White House, he was increasingly disappointed by the rightward drift of his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Before Taft's first term was up, Roosevelt was ready to challenge him for the G.O.P. nomination...
Much has been made of the Howard Dean campaign's knack for online fund raising and MoveOn.org's success in uniting like-minded netizens. But that's just part of a much larger paradigm shift. Real campaign technology is just now booting up. Powerful search tools often honed on vast, private consumer databases are playing increasingly important roles in shaping election strategies. Technology managers have become important campaign advisers, providing precision guidance on how campaign funds should be allocated and what messages might resonate. "Elections are very much like one-day sales," says Dean Phillips, president of Aristotle...