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Even though bags of candy corn and other Halloween treats have barely hit drugstore shelves, Virginia voters will start casting their ballots on Friday at early-voting sites around the commonwealth. Another half-dozen states will open up early voting next week, before the candidates even meet for their first debate of the campaign. In all, 36 of the 50 states will allow early voting this year, including many key battleground states like Ohio and Colorado. As many as one-third of all voters are expected to make their selection before Election...
...that many political analysts have said is a potent political force this election cycle. With half of the precincts reporting, Kerry was leading Edward O’Reilly, a lawyer and former firefighter, by a two-to-one margin. While Kerry carried virtually every city and town in the Commonwealth, O’Reilly ran strong in places such as his hometown of Gloucester, where Kerry won by only a few points. “There are unfinished fights that we must win, and I want to return to Washington to make sure every American has the same great health...
...Britain] had many interests in Kenya, and Moi was a very volatile man. A snap of his fingers and he could have kicked people out of there very quickly," Ward said. "I think there were people in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who looked at the big board and thought 'look, we can't bring this girl back, sad as it is, she's dead. Moi doesn't want this to be a murder. Let's support Moi.' And that's what they did," he said...
...this week the Sunday Telegraph newspaper revealed that an independent police report - completed secretly in 2004 - has found that Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the British High Commission in Kenya had made mistakes and engaged in cover-ups in the investigation into Julie's murder...
Michelle De Kretser's first novel, The Rose Grower, was set in revolutionary France; her second, The Hamilton Case, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Encore Award, in colonial Ceylon. With her latest, The Lost Dog, she visits contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India. The span of globetrotting mirrors de Kretser's own life. Born in Sri Lanka, she migrated to Australia as a teenager. De Kretser took her first degree in French at Melbourne University, then moved to Paris for her M.A. before returning to Australia where she worked, perhaps aptly, as a travel editor...