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...glasses in your mind. In journalism the details are what jump out at you: the strange way somebody buttons their coat, or a weird way someone has of standing. In fiction those are by far the most difficult things to fabricate because it's hard to make those things seem real...
They are a point or two apart in the polls. They seem to shadow each other from battleground state to battleground state. And now they are hurling words at each other like longshoremen...
...before she was named John McCain's running mate, she doesn't seem to be now. Only a few weeks ago, Palin had promised full cooperation with the legislature - "Hold me accountable," she told Alaskans - including testifying in front of the inquiry, which is also looking into allegations that her staff improperly accessed Wooten's personnel file. She also requested that the state attorney general conduct his own investigation alongside the legislature's probe. But Thomas Van Flein, the lawyer she had to hire because the attorney general, Talis Colberg, also called Monegan about Wooten and therefore could...
...riding high now. When your popularity starts to slip - and if you do a good job of governing, your popularity will slip - issues you may consider resolved will come back to haunt you. Let's take one such issue: class. Most Britons seem pretty relaxed about you and your posh colleagues taking charge. But if you pick up the keys to 10 Downing Street while Britain's economy is still tanking, your period of grace could be painfully short...
...Blaming the gringos for the civil unrest may seem a reach, but Morales knows where his people's hearts lie. In 2002, when the former coca farmer first ran for President, the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia at the time, Manuel Rocha, made an off-the-cuff threat that Washington would withdraw millions of aid dollars should Morales win. Morales was an underdog at the time, but the threat drove his numbers through the roof - such is the anti-Yanqui sentiment in Bolivia. Indeed, some observers say it was Rocha's slip-up that forced a run-off between Morales...