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...what happens when beauty turns to terror? Australia found out last weekend when wildfires swept through the southeastern state of Victoria. Fires are a regular and natural occurrence in the Australian bush, but nobody was ready for the conflagration that exploded through the forests and towns north of Melbourne, and elsewhere in the state, on Saturday Feb. 7. Fueled by 117 degrees F (47 degrees C) heat and fierce northerly winds, huge fireballs burned through fields, cars, houses, stores and schools...
...unlikely to throw a curveball. Nevertheless, the President, and with him the whole White House media shop, has crossed a Rubicon of sorts, acknowledging the equivalent legitimacy of an unapologetically unobjective media outlet, which lives nowhere but the Internet and which didn't even exist four years ago. (President Bush took questions from a "Jeff Gannon," but he was later found not to be a real Web journalist, nor a real Jeff Gannon, so he doesn't count.) (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...Sanford and other conservative governors have staked out some justifiable positions on the stimulus," says Leslie Lenkowsky, a public-affairs professor at Indiana University who served in George W. Bush's Administration with Indiana's Republican governor, Mitch Daniels. (Daniels also offered the stimulus support before Obama on Monday visited his state, another GOP stronghold that, like Florida, went for Obama.) "But I would find it amazing if in the end they didn't accept the money. The job of a congressional opposition is to oppose, but the job of state governors is to make state government work...
...Just then, a serious-looking young boy passed by, dragging an effigy of George W. Bush covered with Stars of David. One of the hair-gelled boys teased the lad for wasting a perfectly good outfit on an effigy, telling him that he should have saved the clothes for himself...
...President Bush may be history in the West, but the Iranians are keeping him alive as a whipping boy for anti-American hostility. He was the favorite effigy of the parade, and President Ahmadinejad called for Bush and his government to be charged and prosecuted for "the millions killed and displaced in the region...