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...news! First Lady Laura Bush and McCain's wife Cindy closed the truncated program with an appeal for donations to aid storm victims on the Gulf Coast. "This is a time when we take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats," Cindy McCain said to a burst of applause...
...Then he takes a set break so everyone can step outside to smoke and watch the fireworks pop off above the adjacent field. When the finale comes, a burst of greens sizzlers, they cheer...
...What the nay-sayers don't understand is that this election has never been about me." Obama declared shortly before the fireworks burst and the confetti flurried. It's one of his favorite lines, and usually it provokes a quibble: Isn't that your name on the buttons and your face on the T-shirts? But as a closing note for this historic convention, it was another selection of perfect words. This is the wager the Democrats have pushed to the center of the table this week: that they can make this election not about...
There was one thing different about this year's monsoon in India. As in so many seasons past, the annual rains began in June, flooding streets and villages and claiming dozens of lives. But when the Kosi River burst its banks on Aug. 18 in the northeastern state of Bihar, the destruction was much worse than anyone expected. "It is not a normal flood, but a catastrophe," Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told reporters after flying over the affected areas...
...While the country's corporate sector is in better shape than it was in the 1990s after an epic property bubble burst, some things never change. Unlike in the 1990s, a lack of proactive government policy threatens to make the situation worse for ordinary Japanese. Contrast the Japanese government's inaction in the face of recession with the steps the U.S. has taken in the past nine months, among them a series of interest-rate cuts and tax rebates. No wonder the Japanese public exhibits so little confidence in the administration of Yasuo Fukuda, whose approval ratings bottomed...