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...allegations ever since they first surfaced in April, it's taking the legal procedure seriously and clearly has no intention of going down without a ferocious fight. There's even talk of a scenario in which Thai Rak Thai would strike back by demanding the dissolution of the rival Democrat Party as well, on the grounds that its boycott of April's vote and its unsuccessful appeal for a royally appointed government undermined the election. "We could both be facing the same fate," warned Pimol Srivikorn, a Thai Rak Thai spokesman. And Thailand could be stumbling into an ever deeper...
Roosevelt had set sail for South America in the fall of 1913, not quite a year after his failed attempt to regain the presidency. As a third-party candidate vying for a third term, he had split the Republican vote, putting a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, in the White House for the first time in 16 years. After the election, Roosevelt found himself a pariah, ridiculed by his enemies and hated by many of his old Republican friends and backers. Hunkered down at Sagamore Hill, his secluded home in Oyster Bay, N.Y., he fought to stave off depression and despair...
...presidential nomination, but the party renominates Taft--even though Roosevelt won all but one primary and caucus. The new Progressive (Bull Moose) Party promptly adopts T.R. as its candidate. That October he is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wis., but gives a 90-min. speech before seeing a doctor. Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected on Nov. 5, 1912; T.R., the runner-up, garners the largest percentage of votes ever by a third-party candidate. In the fall of 1913, T.R. travels to South America, where he gives lectures and explores Brazil's "River of Doubt." He nearly dies, but later...
Michigan's Carl Levin and Rhode Island's Jack Reed have spent much of this month in a Washington version of hell. The two reigning Democratic policy wonks on defense issues led a series of meetings with seven other Senate Democrats in search of a unified plan to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Two of the participants were Harry Reid of Nevada and Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Democrat's leaders in the Senate. The other five are all eyeing a run for President in 2008. Getting Democrats to agree on anything to do with Iraq these days...
...mystery: How is it possible-with 2,500 U.S. solders dead, no discernible progress on the ground and a solid majority of the public now agreeing that the war in Iraq was a mistake-for the Democrats to seem so bollixed about the war and for the President to seem so confident? A good part of it is flawed strategy. Democrats keep hoping that the elections can be framed as a referendum on the Bush policy, and Republicans keep reminding the public that elections are a choice, not a referendum. Last week, in the opening salvo of the 2006 congressional...