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Just before midnight on a remote road in rural Victoria last December, worried residents spotted a group of young men in military-style clothing gathered around several vehicles. They called local police, who confronted the men in bushland near Kinglake, about 60 km northeast of Melbourne. The group claimed they were there to play paintball, a game - illegal in Victoria - in which participants shoot at each other with paint-filled pellets. But in one of the cars was a laptop computer which police say had little to do with harmless play: it contained a digital manual on homemade explosives...
...Dole left staff members on the tarmac when he fired them. Clinton had an official campaign team and then the whole secret shadow operation of Dick Morris. Kerry's campaign had more layers than a baklava, and as an aide complained, "he never gave the same speech twice." In Bushland, aides didn't have to be worried that someone would go around or undermine them or that they would be thrown under the bus at the first sign of trouble. "I've been more worried about job security in city-council races than the presidential," says McKinnon. "That gave...
...this were the Clinton White House, the plunging polls would have spurred hastily assembled late-night meetings, presidential phone calls to allies at all hours, a round of firings. Not so in Bushland. At the offices of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Arlington, Va., there's the same placid quality that Bush showed during his fried-food fest. The headquarters have got all the pizazz of an insurance office. Top staff have private offices that circle a vast maze, there are standard-issue cubicles, the desks are neat, most of the men wear a tie (except on casual Fridays, when...
...ROOM TO RELAX Look up Noosa's accommodation options here, be it a beachfront apartment, penthouse, bushland bungalow or any one of the waterfront mansions that are now becoming popular with beautiful people and wealthy tourists...
...baseball-obsessed Bushland the controversy was a topic of conversation throughout the next day. "Who didn't think it might go to 11 innings?" Bush asked, amazed at the lack of preparation. Various aides ran through the possible solutions with their boss, weighing whether the teams should have used pitchers who had already cooled down or put players on the mound who don't normally pitch. While the president did dismiss a suggestion that the final victor be determined by home run derby of each team's biggest hitters, he offered no suggestion for how the "pathetic" resolution...