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...suspicion of match-fixing fuels some of the speculation surrounding Woolmer's murder: that the former England player was killed to prevent him blowing the lid on the game's continuing cancer. Pakistan has certainly been linked to match-fixing scandals in the past. Outspoken Pakistani batsman Qasim Omar has long maintained that he was bribed to deliberately get himself out during the 1983-84 Pakistan-Australia series. A decade later, three Australian players publicly alleged that Salim Malik of Pakistan had offered them money to lose a match. Malik denied the allegation. Then, in 2000, police in the Indian...
...whether or not Edwards will be able to stay in the race all the way to the end. It is certainly true that with effective treatment, Elizabeth Edwards could live many years. But it is also true that even the best treatment isn't always effective, and that bone cancer is particularly lethal. Edwards' supporters, and surely many average Americans, have to be wondering at what point the candidate will decide that his duties as husband and father to three children, including a 6- and 8-year-old, trump his duty to his country and the cause of winning...
...campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly." The words from John Edwards were a shock, coming as they did after he and his wife Elizabeth had spent the opening minutes of their press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., describing how her breast cancer had returned, and spread to her bones. Just moments before, John Edwards had explained that because his wife's cancer had spread "from breast to bone, it is no longer curable." With that grim statement, I - and, presumably, many other listeners - assumed that the former North Carolina Senator and top-tier contender for the 2008 Democratic...
...clearly meant it to be inspiring, but there is also something discomfiting about that statement. Even more discomfiting was Edwards' claim that by soldiering on while his wife has incurable cancer, he would be proving that he could deal with the pressures of being President. I wonder how voters will react to that sentiment...
...wife's cancer at some point forces Edwards to withdraw, who would benefit? Though decidedly second-tier candidates, Senators Joe Biden and Chris Dodd would suddenly become the leading white male contenders for the nomination. But neither is a natural replacement for Edwards. Biden is running almost entirely on the strength of his foreign policy experience. Dodd is running as a Washington veteran who can get things done. Neither is plausible as a populist...