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...time, the liberal group MoveOn.org has been sending around e-mails with the apparently false claim that Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, supported Buchanan in the 2000 election. (She wore a Buchanan button when he visited Alaska but says she never backed him.) All the money and outside effort has a single goal: reaching voters where the candidates have not. "This election is going to be decided by the grass roots," explains Phil Burress, a social conservative from Ohio who is helping to organize pastors and distribute church voter guides. "It's not going to be decided...
...Lula is aiming for membership in the world's most exclusive club, the group of nations with permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council, part of his effort to "change the world's political and commercial geography." Brazil, the world's fifth most populous country, has begun lobbying more ardently for membership, and in his speech to the General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 23, Lula argued that the council's "distorted representation is an obstacle to the multilateral world we desire...
...Will all of the federal wheeling and dealing come with transparency and oversight? Maybe. The bailout is being undertaken by the U.S. Treasury, which means it can't be hidden away or done "off the books" in an effort to minimize its apparent scope. The Treasury will consult with experts to figure out "mechanisms for buying assets and from whom to buy," Paulson said Tuesday. "We do not know exactly what the best design is." But it's leaning toward conducting "reverse auctions" in which the Treasury would, for example, buy $1 billion in bad mortgages from whichever institution would...
...rivers or, as at the Jalladkhana, down the wells and conduits of local water-pumping stations, where corpses were literally flushed away into the sea. "These are crimes so horrible that even God wouldn't forgive you," says K.M. Safiullah, a retired general who led the independence war effort. "There cannot be unity without this being solved...
...Union of Burma, an alliance of exile groups. "If they were serious, they would release all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi." He said the move was intended to relieve international pressure - and more importantly domestic discontent - over the junta's handling of the cyclone relief effort in which outside assistance was at first refused, and then restricted. This week will also mark the first anniversary of protests led by Buddhist monks that were violently suppressed by the military...