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There is one upside to the Democratic presidential candidates' pledge not to campaign in Florida before Tuesday's primary election: it means one less petty political donnybrook in the increasingly nasty race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But for Democrats, it's hard to find any other silver lining in the fact that their eventual nominee will have no primary face time with voters in such a crucial swing state. "I don't think there is any real chance the Republicans can win the presidency in November without taking Florida," says Steve Geller, a Florida Democrat and the state...
...York donnybrook, it is Johnson vs. Johnson as the heirs of the Johnson & Johnson fortune contest a multimillion-dollar will...
Curran is willing to bend somewhat; he has offered not to teach sexual-ethics classes if the Vatican will settle for issuing a statement detailing his errors, but allow him to continue as a theology teacher. Mindful of the potential donnybrook if Curran is dismissed, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, head of Catholic University's board of trustees, has lobbied with the Pope and Ratzinger to accept such a compromise, so far to no avail...
...conducting a "campaign of untruths" - governments on both sides of the Atlantic have occasionally pushed the boundaries of diplomacy in trying to promote their respective national champions. Skyrocketing fuel prices and cut-back purchase plans have made the battle fiercer than ever, and last week a full-scale trade donnybrook erupted. Fulfilling a campaign promise, the Bush Administration filed a case with the World Trade Organization accusing the European Union of supplying Airbus with illegal subsidies...
...former President was dressed formally, in a blue suit, white shirt and pink tie, but he spoke easily and often quite candidly about his successes and failures. The purpose was to sell books, obviously, but Clinton was also intent on adding his two cents to the never-ending partisan donnybrook that has become a central component of his legacy. In his memoirs and our interview, he launched a blistering counterattack against the people whose books and actions were not in his "non-nutcase" category--the members of Hillary Clinton's "vast right-wing conspiracy," especially Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr...