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...hard to see how McCain's multiple mansions or $500 shoes detract from his economic plans, and just about impossible to see how Obama's decision to vacation near his grandmother in Hawaii undercuts his claim to economic leadership. But ever since the wealthy Whig William Henry Harrison's brilliant "log cabin and hard cider" campaign, candidates have tried to strike an Everyman pose, and missteps that have made them look "out of touch" - like George H.W. Bush checking his watch during an economic debate, or John Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, or even Bill Clinton of Hope, Ark., getting...
When the Beijing Olympics began on August 8, 2008 at 8:00 p.m - 8 being an auspicious number in Chinese - with a brilliant orgy of 35,000 fireworks and the thunderous percussion of 2,000 ancient drums, there was no question that the East now mattered. Asia has hosted the Summer Games twice before - Tokyo '64 and Seoul '88 - but this Olympics represents the aspirations of one-fifth of humanity. For 60 minutes, more than 15,000 Chinese performers marched and twirled and beamed with such flawless precision that it was as if the previous five millennia of Chinese history...
...leading the SMERSH men through the circular upper concourse of the Byelorussian-Radial subway station on the Moscow circle line, with its white-ceilinged dome and brilliant electric lights, and opposite us two parallel escalators, thickly packed with Muscovites, rising from below. It seemed as though they were all looking at me! They kept coming in an endless ribbon from down there, from the depths of ignorance--on and on beneath the gleaming dome, reaching toward me for at least one word of truth--so why did I keep silent...
...absolutely brilliant at the big set pieces" like the London bombings of July 7, 2005, says Brian Paddick, a former senior police officer who ran for London mayor earlier this year and is known for his sharp criticism of his former employers. But the police are less successful at securing public trust - the basis of policing by consent. Londoners feel that nobody has been held properly to account, says Paddick: "If you can't trust the police in times of crisis, then who can you turn...
...some $400 million is chasing the signatures of just three players - Manchester United's free-scoring Portuguese midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo (a $120 million target of Spain's Real Madrid); Brazilian forward Robinho, for whom English club Chelsea are reportedly willing to pay Real $80 million; and A.C. Milan's brilliant Brazilian playmaker Kaká, sought by Chelsea for a whopping $160 million. But dozens of lesser trades have seen players change clubs for sums unthinkable a few short years ago. And the ballooning wage bill of the English Premiership, which by virtue of having the world's largest TV audience...