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...Labor, meanwhile, has the trickier task of satisfying traditional voter bases in seats like Braddon and also wooing mainlanders like MacLulich. But the momentum is there: some of the strongest applause from the party faithful at the Sept. 29 Labor campaign launch came for Latham's promise to detail a policy before the election. Party strategists know that at this poll Tasmanian forests matter, not only because of the dogged campaign by conservationists that has won mass public support, but because a strong showing is predicted for the Greens, who have led the fight to end old-growth logging...
WHEN A RACE FOR PRESIDENT gets this close, no detail is too small to leave to chance. Which is how it happened that a man who once oversaw Middle East peacemaking found himself haggling last week with one of Washington's most storied power players over the matter of ... colored lights. The proposal: to allow the millions of Americans watching this Thursday's first presidential debate to see the warning signal whenever George Bush or John Kerry has exceeded his allotted time to answer a question. It was a transparent gambit by the President's representative, former Secretary of State...
...effect against his G.O.P. opponent, Governor William Weld, such as roaming from the lectern and asking direct questions. What Kerry's camp got were three debates rather than the two that Bush's campaign initially said it wanted. Getting three contests "was much more important to us than any detail of the format," says Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill. A challenger always wants as many chances to stand on the same stage as the sitting President and take some shots, and Kerry thinks the debates are a place where he can shine...
Ready, Set ... Debate How badly do both sides want to win? As the Bush and Kerry teams prepare to joust this week, no detail, from pens to podiums, has been overlooked...
...prenup. To evade paparazzi, she exchanged vows with backup dancer KEVIN FEDERLINE, 26, at what was to have been their engagement bash, a month before the planned nuptials. "I was like, 'What are we waiting for?'" Spears told PEOPLE. But when they said I do, one detail was amiss. Lawyers advised the couple, who opted for a prenup agreement and signed a marriage license, to wait a grace period after inking the prenup. They have not filed the signed license, which, Federline told PEOPLE, they'll do this week. So, Mama Spears, there's still time for intervention...