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...After Dole'speech announcing he was stepping down from the Senate to restart his Presidential bid, one Senator stood up and declared, "Today the President [Clinton] learned he is in the biggest fight of his political life." Yep, the speaker was John McCain...
...exact same venue four years later, a floundering John Kerry-weeks away from mortgaging his house to pay for his presidential bid-restarted his campaign with a searing attack on every aspect of George W. Bush's leadership, culminating in this rhetorical right hook: "I know something about aircraft carriers for real. And if George Bush wants to make this election about national security, I have three words for him he'll understand: Bring...
...series since April 2004. They cost about $10,000 apiece, weigh 25 lbs and can be used at night. Meanwhile, Defense News says that Foster-Miller, a Massachussets company, may propose a lighter-weight version of its current 115 to 140 lb. TALON model to try to win the bid...
...headquarters of Benelli motorcycles. Once one of Europe's most revered bikemakers, it was also the first Italian firm to be bought outright by a Chinese company when, in October 2005, the Qianjiang Group, China's third-largest scootermaker, purchased Benelli for $24 million. At the time of the bid, Qianjiang's purchase of the storied brand from its last Italian owner was seen as another sign of the country's industrial decline, with local newspapers deriding the sale as a "disaster" and an "ugly story." Indeed Italy's manufacturing model - built largely on small and midsize companies that turn...
...nature," says Bao Tong, a former adviser to Zhao Ziyang, the reformist Communist Party General Secretary at the time of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. "You cannot separate the Olympics from human rights." You might suppose that the Chinese government would have thought of that before it entered its bid to host the games...