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...deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, insisted in a July 27 videotape that al-Qaeda was still intent on conducting another "spectacular" attack in the United States. Zawahiri, the report notes, used photos of the World Trade Center burning on Sept. 11 and 9/11 leader Muhammad Atta "in the background of this video...
...sense of humor about itself. Jersey has an in-your-face attitude. And Trenton is large enough that you could imagine that it would have a decent amount of crime. It has this small-town kind of environment, second-generation Americans, working-class people. This is my background. This is what I feel comfortable with...
...people too. So I just tried to find out what I liked - what do I like in television? What do I like in movies? What do I like in books? I think that I'm a very typical person. I am Average Janet. I come from this working-class background - went to a state school, first in my family to graduate from college, didn't even stay in a dorm. We didn't have any money, but we're hardworking people. This is America. I think that I am America...
...family's 1.5-ha property in Kingston, 300 km south of Adelaide. How did this change come about? Twenty years ago, Steele built a house for a local man, Merv Braithwaite, who told him, "You know, you'd make more money fishing than building." With something of a family background in fishing, Steele thought he'd give it a go, even though his wife, Julie, had her doubts and everything he knew about the game could be scrawled on a cray's pincers...
...more conservative voting record. Dismissing a question about how his race might affect how he campaigns, he told TIME, "In Iraq the bullets don't pierce different racial groups differently." Another Harvard Law School grad, Deval Patrick, who is running for Governor of Massachusetts, has played up his background as a corporate executive at Texaco and Coca-Cola. "A guy came up to me after a speech and said, 'I expected Jesse Jackson, and I got Colin Powell,'" Patrick said. Kweisi Mfume, who hopes to enter the Senate from Maryland but faces a tough primary opponent, is the exception...