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...balance a defense looking for 10 shutouts this season, the offensive burden will fall squarely on the shoulders of a mix of experienced returning players and rotating freshman...
...posters and brochures she had printed up at the beginning of her campaign, Mohammadi is worried about how she will pay for the next batch. She estimates that she has already spent at least $2,000, more than six times her monthly salary as a midwife. The financial burden?which she has covered in part by selling all of her gold jewelry, aside from her wedding ring?will only increase as the poll nears. The election commission grants each candidate airtime at local radio stations?a female candidate's best bet for getting her name out?but production...
...missteps on Katrina came at a crucial moment in Bush's second term, when his top legislative priority at home, Social Security reform, was already on life support and the war in Iraq was becoming a mounting economic and political burden. The Administration that had been determined to defy history and ward off the second-term curse--and early lame-duck status--by controlling the agenda and seizing opportunities appears increasingly at the mercy of events, at home and abroad...
...Bush (although when she did, he talked to her soothingly, according to White House officials). "His inner circle takes pride in being able to tell him 'everything is under control,' when in this case it was not," said a former aide. "The whole idea that you have to only burden him with things 'that rise to his level' bit them this time...
More than 2,000 people, actually. That's how many wannabes tried out in Baghdad for Iraq Star, the new Iraqi version of American Idol. "We're trying to help ease the burden and troubles of our people," said producer Wadia Nader. The show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying...