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Even more seriously, in March 2007 Elizabeth Edwards' breast cancer - she was first diagnosed in November 2004 - came back. While treatable, the disease had progressed to a stage that's incurable. Speculation raged that Edwards would drop out of the race, but he stayed in. Six months later dropout rumors resurfaced when the campaign announced it would accept public financing. Facing not one, but two candidates who were outraising him 3 to 1, Edwards was forced to accept matching public funds in a deal that severely limited how much he could spend in comparison to his rivals. But, again, Edwards...
...drop-out drop-out speech, Rudy referred to his combative nature: "Like most Americans, I love competition. I don't back down from a principled fight." But he stayed out of Iowa, New Hampshire (at least once he fell behind there), Wyoming, Michigan and South Carolina, holding out for a fight he thought he could win in Florida, trying to win a national election on local battlefields of his own choosing. He listened to political operatives who valued big-state delegates more than small-state momentum, and now it looks like he's going to get neither. The humorist Dave...
...Flag is not alone, however. The Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA, estimates that 60 pubs close every month in Britain. According to industry figures, a smoking ban implemented during one of the coldest and wettest summers in decades resulted in a 10% drop in beer consumption. CAMRA says energy costs rose during months when owners hadn't expected to have to pay for heat. And beer production costs have risen thanks to the rains that drowned hops and barley yields. For many pubs, serving food has become the key to survival. The Office of National Statistics indicates that Britons spend...
...Carolina, a predominantly Republican state, a record of 532,227 voters showed up to help give Barack Obama a resounding win in the Democratic primary Saturday. By contrast, G.O.P. turnout in the South Carolina primary the week before fell from 573,101 in 2000 to about 431,000 - a drop of nearly...
...says. "They were very polite. 'This film will not be made, and if it is, people will be killed.'" He borrowed a Thai princess's armored vehicle to travel to the set, and at one point, people who worked with him on the movie say, he wanted to drop the project entirely...