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...could afford it. An editor who recently changed jobs took "Savvy Senior" with him. "One of the first things I did was to call Jim and say, 'Hey, I want to get this in our paper too,'" says Wayne Frazer, general manager of the Spencer County Journal Democrat in Rockport, Ind. "People feel like they're getting their information from a friend, as opposed to getting it from a faceless entity." When a reader recently wrote to lament her husband's hearing loss, Miller's reply began, "WHAT...
...much longer can the candidates dodge what will be the key question, both for the primary contest and the matchup of a nominee against a formidable incumbent President: Do the Democrats have anything to offer? A sour economy at home (weekly unemployment claims rose 8,000 to 455,000 last week) and turmoil overseas could make the odds considerably better for the Democrats next year. But it's an outside shot - not to mention an unseemly hope - to count on bad news alone to carry a Democrat all the way to the White House. And unlike his father, this President...
...Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, he helped found the umbrella opposition I.N.C. in 1992, and his political savvy earned him pre-eminence in anti-Saddam exile circles. To his passionate supporters, who include Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he's a selfless democrat steeped in Western ways who could guide Iraq out of decades of repression...
...group to be the future government of Iraq," Wolfowitz told TIME. But behind the scenes, Rumsfeld's aides have been promoting a team of exiles led by Iraqi National Congress boss Ahmed Chalabi, 58, a former businessman, to control the interim authority. They view Chalabi as a reliable democrat in a nation of Saddam followers. But State, backed by CIA officials, says Chalabi is a charlatan who hasn't lived in Iraq since 1958 and has no constituency there. This group favors waiting to see which new forces emerge...
...Kean and former congressman Lee Hamilton, the panel's top Democrat, requested additional funding in a letter to the administration last week. The money was to pay for a staff of about sixty and their resources. Kean plans to field a separate task force for each of nine areas that the law establishing the commission requires it to investigate. The panel has until the end of May 2004 to complete its work, but it will spend the $3 million it was originally allotted by around August 2003 - if it doesn't get the supplement. "We hope that this request will...