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...kind of moment Democrats love. Carol Roberts is running for the U.S. House of Representatives against Republican Clay Shaw. She thinks she can win because a Democrat nearly beat Shaw last time and she has the prescription-drug issue in her quiver. So the Palm Beach County commissioner fired up a controversial TV ad last week. Roberts appears with four seniors in the 30-second spot, pitching a phone number that advises seniors how to save money by filling their prescriptions in Canada via the Internet. (The number connects to her campaign and is designed to be a lure.) Shaw...
...than 20-point poll lead over McBride, who has never held elected office? Despite Reno's celebrity and hold over liberal South Florida, Democratic donors wrote her off, convinced she would never capture enough of the conservative north. Her feckless campaign, whose only highlight was an oft-satirized Miami Beach dance party, prompted even the state's liberal teachers' union, the Florida Education Association, to endorse McBride. "Reno just didn't convey a specific message on the issues that matter this year," says the FEA's president, Maureen Dinnen. McBride's profile also got an unintended lift from Bush: preferring...
...boyfriend alleged he had topless pictures of her. After the sash passed to first runner-up Clymer, Revels sued to get the title back. Before a decision was made, both women went to Atlantic City, N.J., for prepageant activities, which apparently included many opportunities for frolicking on the beach. A federal judge ruled that the Miss America organization did not have to recognize Revels' claim to the tiara, and added he hoped his decision would preserve the reputation of the pageant, which he called "a significant part of Americana...
...stealth mission, witnessed by only a few friends, Japanese officials and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, along with the island's residents and a CNN crew, which recorded the event for broadcast later this fall. Bush flew by private jet to Iwo Jima, first walking the black sand beach where Marines landed in 1945 and helping raise a flag on Mount Suribachi, where Marines raised the U.S. flag in the famous war picture. "I choked back a tear," he said. Then Bush boarded a Japanese helicopter and retraced the route of his mission. "The waves and wind looked hauntingly...
...Apart from two squid fishermen preparing outriggers under the Gauguin sky, I couldn't see another soul along the length of the beach. It was almost impossible to imagine this tranquil sea, waveless and lambent with the day's dying glow, as a foaming cataract of devastation. And as the waiter glided off to fetch another drink, I remembered Jahrani's parting words: "We live on the edge of the fire here in Flores. We know death can come at any time, from the mountains or from the sea. So we must try to savor each day like...