Word: campaigners
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...considered a strong candidate for the position, New Yorkers now say they would prefer state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo - another member of a famous political family, and a former cousin-by-marriage of Caroline Kennedy. A series of tense media appearances and an unusually aggressive behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign by New York power brokers on her behalf have helped damage Kennedy's once unimpeachable above-the-fray image. (See pictures of TIME's J.F.K. covers...
...Paterson. During the afternoon, however, she became aware of what he described as an unspecified "personal situation." She called Paterson to inform him that she was withdrawing her name from consideration, but the governor asked her to reconsider that decision, which she did. (See pictures of J.F.K.'s presidential campaign...
...Station was scheduled for demolition, but a California state park ranger named Alexander Weiss made a remarkable discovery: hand-carved fragments of Chinese poetry hiding under layers of graffiti and plaster in the walls of the derelict barracks. This find stopped the wrecking ball and began a decades-long campaign to turn the site into a museum memorializing one of the darker periods in American immigration. (See 10 things to do in San Francisco...
...dictum that "war is the continuation of politics by other means" may have been coined by Carl von Clausewitz in 19th century Prussia, but it was given new meaning during Israel's 22-day offensive in Gaza. The troika of Israeli decision-makers that ran the military campaign - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak (leader of the Labor Party) and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (who replaced Olmert as leader of the Kadima party because of his impending corruption case) - are fierce political rivals. "If they were together on an island in a Survivor episode," says Reuven Hazan...
...regardless of the outcome of the Olmert-Livni-Barak tussle within the war cabinet, the biggest winner from the Gaza campaign was Benyamin Netanyahu, leader of the hawkish opposition Likud party and front-runner in the polls, who watched the Gaza war from the sidelines and saw his own lead over Livni wider to a margin of 33 seats to her party...