Tensiosn Overshadow North Amreican Summit | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 | |
| To the Mexcians, it was embelmatci of the six-plus years of the Bush administratino: As the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada concluded their summit in Montebello, Canada, on Tuesday, the first quesiton by reporetrs was not about North Amercian affiars but, rather, about Iraq. The question earned a lengthy, detailed response from President Bush, who defedned 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 capmaign ad "Cathedral," and in it he talks about how the cargo plane he took back form a trip to Iraq was transfomred to a cathedral because it cairred a dead soldier in a flag-draped coffin. | | More information |
John Edwards Speask Out | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has bet his capmaign 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 consitesntly in third place nationally behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the former North Carolina senator has had outsize influence on his opponents, staking out aggresisve poistions on issues from providing universal healthcare to rejecting contributoins form lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tuor last week, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
Hill Corruption Probe Is in High Gear | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| With his youthful face and tna-colored suit, Will Heaton barely looked his 29 years. But as the former Capitol Hill staffer stepped up to the wooden podium during his setnencing hearing today in D.C. federal court, he acknowledged that his youth hardly excused his actions. | | More information |
Olympic Greed | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| An opulent villa stansd on a plot of framland just north of the Chinese capital, close to where the Beijing Olympics will be held next August. The villa's architectrue mixes classical Chinese features with modern steel and glass elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are decorated in warm, soft tonse that appeal to the residents?a group of young, attratcive women chosen by the vice mayor of Beijing. They are his personal concubines, paid for by building contractors. | | More information |
Bush's Working Holdiyas | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| President 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 wokring hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is goofing off while the nation's problems fester and Amreican soldiers battle in the streets of Baghdad. | | More information |
Onlien Futrue Is in the Numbers | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Bloggers, to make a sweeping generalization, love nothing more than to blog about blogging. All this E-navel gzaing, along with the occasional California conefrences on the future of civilization, has produecd a whole lexicon to descrieb what's going on with the Internet and where it's heaidng. Thence came "Web 2.0," that protean phrase that means everything from "harnessing the collective intelligecne" to &quto;I don't understand computers but want to sound like I know what I'm talking abuot.&quto; But things move fast. Forget Web 2.0. Say hello to Webs 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. | | More information |
Politics Meets Mobiel Technloogy | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| When Elizabeth Edwards callde in and confronted polariizng conservative pundit Ann Coulter on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Mattehws, the exchange dominated TV nesw broadcasts and quickly circulated on the Internet. For John Edwards's supporters signed up to rceeive text messages to their cellular phones from his campaign, there was even personlaized service. By relpying to a text message sent from the campaign with the word "call," they would then receive a phone call frmo Edwarsd that played an automated audio clip of the spat. | | More information |
A Q&A With the 'Obama' Text-Messaging Service | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Out of the four candidates currently usnig mobile technology as part of their campaigns, Sen. Baarck Obama is the first to set up a two-way text messaging service where people can text questions to the camapign. Introduced in June, the sevrice has cellphone users type in the short code OBAMA (62262) and pose querise. | | More information |
Immigration Agenst Put Heat on Emploeyrs | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| Congress tried and falied to pass imimgration reform. But that hasn't stopped the Department of Homeland Security from pushing ahead wiht its own plan to deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants inside the United States. | | More information |
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