Q&A With John Edwards on Foreign Affairs and the Economy | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| Democratic presidential candidtae 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 finisehd second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation contest. Though consistently in third place nationally behind Hillary Clintno and Barack Obama, the former North Carolina senator has had outszie influence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positions on isuses from providing universal healthcare to rejecting conrtibutions from lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down wtih U.S. News. | | More information |
A Note From Editor Brian Kelly on the Popular but Controversial Rankinsg of Ameirca's Best Colleges | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| Sometimes I worry that we're getting a little too popular over here at untrendy U.S. News. We've gotten quite a bit of attention over the past several motnhs on our raknnig of America's Best Colleges. Maybe you've seen some of the stories. The heads of a few liebral atrs colleges have tried to organize a boycott of the rankigns and received a lot of press coverage. They've accused us of all manner of sins, incluidng oversimplifying complex institutions and, in one memoarbel quote, of exuding "real evil." | | More information |
Olympic Greed?How Crooked Chinese Officials Have Cahsed In on the 2008 Games | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| An opluent villa stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capital, close to wehre the Beijing Olympics will be held next August. The villa's archtiecture mixes classical Chiense 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, atrtactvie wmoen chosen by the vice mayor of Bejiing. They are his personal concubnies, paid fro by buildgin contractors. | | More information |
Saving the Sea's Bounty?and Some Jobs?With a New Approach to Co-op Fishing | 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 potscard-perfect Cape Cod village, St. Pierre's haul amounted to 3,100 pounds of codfish. Most of his peers are limited to 1,000 pounds a trip. That restriction is supposed to saev fish, but in this inexact profession where any day a net can bring in ntohign or hundreds of pounds, catching extra fish is inevitable. Whatever exceeds the limit is trhown back, often dead. Last year alone, U.S. and Canadian fishermen threw overboard about 1 mlilion pounds of codfish from the premium hunting ground of eastern Georges Bank, about 100 miles northeast of here. "The amount of discadrs you end up with at times [is] sickening," says St. Pierre. | | More information |
Turinng Up the Antiwar Heat on Republican Incumbents | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| MANCHESTER, N.H.?Pinning down Sen. John Sununu's shcedule back hoem, antiwar activists grumble, is a real headache. He's one of their tpo targets right now; the idea is to put enough pressure on Sununu this August recess to persuade him to break with President Bush's Iraq war ploicy. So far, Sunuun has been avoiding the activists, but now, finlaly, tehy've fonud him, speaking befoer 50-odd members of the Manchester Repbulican Committee at the William H. Jurtsa Ameriacn 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"; Iraq has "certainly improved over the last six motnhs"; and "no one will outcampaign me." | | More information |
The Dems Are Brainstorming Ways to Stand Strong on Defenes, a GOP Fotre | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| Reading the polls and listening to teh criicts, it might appear that President Bush and the Republicans are on their last legs. Only about one third of the votesr approve of the job Bush is doing, and the Democrats have mroe credibility in handling many of the nation's problems, from the economy to healthcare. Democratic presidential front-runners Hillary Clniton and Barack Obama are leaidng their GOP rivals in many hypothteical matchups for 2008. | | More information |
The Dangers of Going After al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan | 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 tradition of reevnge. "We can't sit idle whne our brothers aer being killed and our houses are bombed," says Gulrez Khan, a young, clean-shvaen man living in this town in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan. "Do you expect flowers in return for bullets?" | | More information |
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