Word: campaign
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...Benjamin Disraeli in the other. What could Disraeli, the great 19th century British Prime Minister, possibly tell us about Iowa? For Rove, that's easy. Disraeli was a Tory who championed the common man, a "compassionate conservative" more than a century before Bush turned the phrase into a campaign slogan...
...battle with federal agents on Whidbey Island, Wash. Mathews was the founder of the Order, a radical offshoot of Aryan Nations believed to be responsible for a series of bombings and murders, including that of Denver radio talk-show host Alan Berg in 1984. Mathews' gang financed its campaign of violence with a string of highly successful robberies that netted an estimated $4 million...
...phenomenal political rise--from a novice underdog candidate for Texas Governor in 1994 to the heavily favored G.O.P. front runner for President just five years later--in large part to Rove. On Saturday, when Bush handily won the straw poll, the victory was a validation of a risky campaign plan Rove devised late last year, after Bush won re-election in Texas. The "yellow rose garden" strategy kept Bush in Austin, and off the campaign trail, until mid-June--leaving him just two months to organize for an event in which other candidates had invested years...
...often that the worlds of literature and hard-core, pulse-pounding, rocket-launching action gaming meet, but they're about to. Yesterday, after a months-long campaign of hints and rumors, Electronic Arts announced its intention to publish a new horror-themed computer game built around technology developed for Quake III and designed by one of Quake's original architects. The game will be based on Lewis Carroll's classic children's book "Alice in Wonderland." Will it take gaming to a new level - or drag a literary classic down...
...catch fire, if only this would happen, if only that would happen. But sometimes, it never does. The voters rejected him last time, they rejected him this time. So it shouldn?t surprise us too much." It?s a sign of this year?s supercharged cycle that even a campaign as long-established as Alexander's ran out of money six months before New Hampshire. Pooley says it?s just as well it happened now. "He?s not an untalented man. He has a lot to offer in public service if he can find another way he wants to contribute...