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...during the war, McCain's mother would wake up the kids in the middle of the night and sit them on the sofa so she could take pictures of them with their famous grandfather. He died of a sudden heart attack five days after he stood on the deck of the battleship Missouri to watch the Japanese surrender. The obituary ran on the front page of the New York Times; President Truman sent condolences...
...dispel the notion that Republicans should consider voting for John McCain. Bush says he can certainly see why Democrats would; on Sunday he told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that those sly Dems were planning on pulling the McCain lever just so they could stack the deck in favor of their candidate in the general election. Although this seems to veer dangerously close to the paranoid territory known as Perot-land (hmm... the Reform party doesneed a candidate), some polls do back up Bush's contention that he's the candidate who can beat Bradley/Gore. A Newsweek survey this...
...another piece, Shared Fate, we see an array of objects--a pair of gloves, a deck of cards--sliced into by that most humane of execution devices, the guillotine. This wasn't just any big blade; it was, as the caption informs us, the one used to behead Marie Antoinette, now too rusty to slice bread...
...know the cards that have been dealt and those that are left in the deck," hesays. "Harvard is the loser if we make thosestudents wait...
...McCain is more interested in showing off the pets--the iguana, the hamster and Leo the snake--as well as the house itself with its vast deck, pool and hot tub off the master bedroom, as if to say that life has been good to him after all. The four kids have already been packed off to school. And now Cindy, in this Phoenix home where she grew up, is in charge. She's more commanding here than in Washington, where even after 19 years in the role of a politician's wife, she still seems tentative. She says...