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...during the 2000 election, but the instant he temporarily slipped behind, he dubbed himself the underdog. Bush is the overwhelming favorite this time, but his political team is already working hard to reset political expectations. Last week the G.O.P. leaked a deliberately gloomy memo from the President's pollster, Matthew Dowd. "President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly," Dowd wrote, "and in head to head polls in the months ahead President Bush will at times probably be behind potential Democrats." The party chairman e-mailed the memo--officials would normally deny that...
...People looked askance," Clinton told me last week, "when we said that AIDS and other diseases were a security threat, that environmental degradation was a security threat. SARS is just the latest example." You don't have to visit Toronto to know that he's right. --With reporting by Matthew Forney/Guangzhou and Susan Jakes/Beijing
...epidemic. Says the relative of one victim: "It is really bad that the government doesn't care about ordinary people's lives." No matter how long it takes for China to overcome SARS, that's an indictment from which the country's rulers may never recover. --With reporting by Matthew Forney/Guangzhou and Susan Jakes and Huang Yong/Beijing...
...just be a matter of time before SARS strikes in the U.S. the way it has elsewhere. "It's too soon to count our chickens," says Fauci. "This is an evolving epidemic, and we need to take it very seriously." --Reported by Steven Frank and Daffyd Roderick/Toronto, Matthew Forney/Guangzhou and Susan Jakes and Huang Yong/Beijing
...Hannah Beech, our Shanghai bureau chief, discovered evidence of how the disease was spreading through the interior of China, when she overheard meetings at which hospital staff members were instructed to hide the extent of the epidemic. Many others contributed to the extraordinary reporting effort, including Beijing bureau chief Matthew Forney, Shanghai bureau assistant Bu Hua and Neil Gough and Bryan Walsh in Hong Kong...