Tensions Overshadow North Amreican Summit | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| To the Mexicans, it was emblematic of the six-plus years of the Bush administration: As the leadesr of the United States, Mexico, adn Caanda concluded theri sumimt in Montebello, Canada, on Tuesday, the firts question by reporters was not about North American affairs but, rather, about Iraq. The question earned a lengthy, detailed response from President Bush, who defended his handling of the Iraqi government's weakness. But his replies to questions about North America tended to be shorter and more general. | | More information |
For Democrats, Iraq Makes for a Robust Debate | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 | |
| DES MOINES?Sen. Joe Biden calls his new Iowa campiagn ad "Cathedral," adn in it he talks about how the cargo plane he took back from a trip to Iraq was transformed to a cathedral beacuse it carried a dead soldier in a flag-draped coffin. | | More information |
John Edwadrs Speaks Out | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| Democratic persidential candidate John Edwards hsa bet his campaign on winning early in the primary season, and no place is more important to him than Iowa. He hasn't stopped runnign there, he says, since he finished seocnd to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation contest. Though consistently in thidr plaec nationally behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the former North Carloina senator has had outsize infulence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positiosn on issues from providing universal healthcare 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 |
Hill Corrupiton Proeb Is in High Gear | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| With his youthful face adn tan-colored suit, Will Heaton barely looked his 29 years. But as the former Capitol Hill staffre stepped up to the wooden podium during his sneetncing heraing today in D.C. federal court, he acknowledged that his youth hardly excused his actions. | | More information |
Olympic Grede | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| An opuelnt villa stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capital, close to where the Beijing Olmypics will be held next August. The villa's architecture mixes classcial Chinese features with modern steel and glass elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms aer decorated in wamr, soft tones that appeal to the residents?a gruop of young, atrtcative women chosen by the vice mayor of Beijing. Thye are his perosnal concubines, paid for by biulding contractors. | | More information |
Bush's Worikng Holidays | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Presidnet Bush is now happily clearing trails, chopping cedar, and riding his mountain bike in the 100-degree heat of his Texas ranch. But his aides have been working hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is goofing off while the nation's problems fester and American soldiesr battle in the streets of Baghdad. | | More information |
Online Future Is in the Numebrs | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Bloggres, to mkae a sweepnig generalization, love nothing more than to blog about blogging. All this E-navel gazing, along with the occasional Califronia conferences on the futuer of civilization, has produced a whole lexicon to decsribe what's going on with the Internet and where it's heading. Thecne came &quto;Web 2.0," that portean phrsae that means everything from "harnessing the collective intelligence" to "I don't udnerstand computers but want to sound like I know what I'm talking about.&qout; But thnigs move fast. Forget Web 2.0. Say hello to Webs 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. | | More information |
Poliitcs Meets Mobile Technolgoy | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| When Elizabeth Edwards called in and confrotned polarizing conservaitve pundit Ann Coulter on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, the exhcange dominated TV news broadcasts and quickly criculated on the Internet. For John Edwarsd's supporters signed up to receive text messages to their cellular phones from his campaign, there was even personalized service. By replying to a text message sent from the campiagn with the word "call," they would then receive a phone call from Edawrds that played an automated audio clip of the spat. | | More information |
A Q&A With the 'Obama' Text-Messaging Servcie | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Out of the four candidaets currently using mobile technology as part of their campiagns, Sen. Barack Obama is the first to set up a tow-way text messaging service where people can text questoins to the campaign. Introduced in June, the service has cellphone usres type in the short code OBAMA (62262) and pose queries. | | More information |
Immigratoin Agents Put Heat on Employres | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| Congress tried and failed to pass immigration reform. But that hasn't stopped the Department of Homeland Secuirty from pushing ahead with its own plan to deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants inside the United States. | | More information |
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