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...Republican strategists attribute the turnaround to Schwarzenegger?s return to the centrist persona that got him elected. He has made a show of distancing himself from the unpopular President Bush, including rejecting a White House request to boost the number of California National Guardsmen patrolling the border. Schwarzenegger also extended a loan to fund stem cell research in the state following a Bush veto of a federal funding bill. Additionally, he has worked with the Democratic-controlled legislature to get four bond proposals on the fall ballot intended to finance his multibillion-dollar infrastructure overhaul plan. Then there...
...part, Ford's strategy will be to treat Tennessee the way it usually behaves on Election Day--like three separate states. It is a variation on the game plan that got the state's popular Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen elected in 2002. Ford hopes his candidacy will boost African-American turnout to the levels it generally reaches only in presidential election years; that could add as many as 120,000 more votes statewide, about half of them from the western part of the state around Memphis. He is also working harder than most Democratic candidates do in Tennessee's conservative...
...reality on the battlefield and the view of the outcome before any kind of truce takes effect. Israeli commando forces staged a raid in Baalbek, deep inside Hizballah's heartland, overnight Wednesday, capturing five of the organization's fighters in an operation that may have been designed to boost Israel's morale by recalling the bold audacity of raids deep inside enemy territory on which Israelis' confidence in their military is founded - from the lightning preemptive air strikes of June 1967, to the 1976 commando raid that rescued more than 100 hostages from a hijacked airliner at Uganda's Entebbe...
...related to ill-fated parliamentary elections in April; by Thailand's Criminal Court; in Bangkok. The three were found guilty of mismanaging the poll?which was boycotted by the country's opposition parties and later invalidated by the Constitutional Court?and allowing unqualified candidates to run illegally, giving a boost to the ruling Thai Rak Thai party. The men, who subsequently resigned their posts, were released on bail Friday and will appeal the verdict, which also bars them from political activities for 10 years...
...going to get any benefit out of steroids, you would have to have been on the steroids before the Tour de France ever started." Landis notes that he had passed seven other drug tests on the Tour. Plus, testosterone may not be an ideal drug for a quick endurance boost. "It clearly has an effect on power--for throwing a shot put, hitting a baseball," says John Amory, a University of Washington Medical Center endocrinologist. "It wouldn't be my first choice...