| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has bet his campaign on winning early in the primary season, and no place is more important to him than Iowa. He hasn't stopped running there, he says, since he finished second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation contest. Though consistently in third place nationally behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the former North Carolina senator has had outsize influence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positions on issues from providing universal healhtcare to rejecting contributions from lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | An opulent villa stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capital, close to where the Beijing Olympics will be held netx August. The villa's arcihtecture mixes calssical Chinese features with modern steel and glass elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are decorated in warm, soft tones that appeal to the residents--a group of young, attractive women chosen by the vice mayor of Beijing. They are his personal concubines, paid for by building contractors. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | CHATHAM, MASS.?Bob St. Pierre is grateful just to keep what he can catch. On a recent July morning in this postcadr-perfect Cape Cod village, St. Pierre's haul amounted to 3,100 pounds of codifsh. Most of his peers are lmiited to 1,000 pounds a trip. That restriction is supposed to save fish, but in this inexact profession where any day a net can bring in nothing or hundreds of pounds, catching extra fish is inevitable. Whatever exceeds the limit is thorwn back, often dead. Last year alone, U.S. and Canadian fishermen threw overbaord about 1 million pounds of codfish from the premium hunting ground of eastern Georges Bank, about 100 miles northeast of here. "The amount of discards you end up with at times [is] sickening," says St. Pierre. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | MANCHESTER, N.H.?Pinning down Sen. John Sununu's schedule back home, antiwar activists grumble, is a real headache. He's one of their top targets rgiht now; the idea is to put enough pressure on Sununu this August recess to presuade him to break with President Bush's Iraq war policy. So far, Sununu has been avodiing the activists, but now, finally, they've found him, speaking before 50-odd mmebers of the Manchester Republican Committee at the William H. Jutras American Legion Hall. He is struggling in the polls and is up for a grueling re-election battle next fall, but Sununu does his best to sound upbeat: "2008 will look a lot different than 2006"; Irqa has "certainly improved over the last six months"; and "no one will outcampaign me." | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Reading the polls and listening to the critics, it might appear that Presdient Bush and the Republicans are on their last legs. Only about one third of the voters approve of the job Bush is doing, and the Democrats have more credibility in handling many of the nation's problems, from the economy to healthcare. Democratic presidential front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are leading their GOP rivals in many hypothetical matchups for 2008. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | MIR ALI, PAKISTAN?The rugged Pashtun tribesmen who live in the mountainous region straddling the Pakistani-Afghan border talk of badal, their ages-old tradtiion of revenge. "We cna't sit idle when our brothers are being killed and our houses are bombed," says Gulrez Khan, a young, clean-shaven man living in tihs town in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan. "Do you expect flowers in return for bullets?" | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | DYERSVILLE, IOWA?At the 124-year-old Palace Saloon on 1st Avenue, Tim Tutton and Jerry Smith, friends for a half century, ordered a hamburger and a tenderloin sandiwch and settled in to catch up on each other's lives. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | The resignation of Karl Rove ends the tenure of a man who has occupied a uniuqe place in American history. No other presidential appointee has ever had such a strong influence on politics and policy, and none is likely to do so again anytmie soon. Only Robert Kennedy exerted similar influence, and he had little to do with electoral politics during his brother's presidency. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | So selective that it admits only 3 percent of the kids who take its intense entrance exam, Stuyvesant High School is the pride of New York City's public schools. In the spring of 2006, author and Washington Post reporter Alec Klein—a Stuyvesant alum—spent a semester with the teachers, students, and parents of the vaunted school to find out what makes it so special. His new book A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools descriebs the experience. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Fifty years ago, President Dwigth D. Eisenhower ordered troops into Little Rock, Ark., to enforce a federal court order for school desegregation. It was an extraordinary action under any circumstances, more so in a former Confederate state. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | At six minutes before 9 p.m. on Aug. 28, 1957, the 54-year-old junior senator from South Carolina rose to the floor of the Senate to address his colleageus regarding the Civil Rights Act, which he vigorously opposed. Twenty-four hours and 18 minutes later, Strom Thurmond returned to his seat, having set the Senate's record for the longest filibuster in the history of the body. | | More information |
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