Word: englands
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...ruled the August straw poll and dropped nasty mailers like confetti. Now he is polling third behind Romney and McCain in New Hampshire, the two home-state favorites, at about 11%, a Southern Baptist minister who has pulled ahead of a former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in New England. Huckabee has skillfully set expectations low enough that a third-place finish in New Hampshire will be viewed as a success, and he is also leading in polls in South Carolina, where the G.O.P. will hold a key primary on January 19. So the press has got to figure Huckabee...
...England's team-first, one-game-at-a-time gospel may bore us. We want them to talk about the streak, but they won't. That's probably why they'll end up undefeated. No team blocks out distractions like New England. No team is more oblivious to how fans perceive them. "Who cares?" says veteran safety Rodney Harrison. "It's not about someone liking you. This is a business. We understand what people are going to say about us. But at the same time, we don't care. We can't care...
Many Britons are familiar with that routine, which Johnson has honed in Parliament as MP for the affluent constituency of Henley in southeastern England and as the occasional presenter of a TV game show. Readers not yet acquainted with his signature style will get a flavor of it from this verbatim response to TIME's question about whether he considers himself a conviction politician: "I certainly have a range of convictions. Not for anything serious. God. I don't have convictions, actually, by the way. No, no, no. Sorry, I don't have any convictions in a court...
...Bhutto showed both “extremely young innocence” and a mature, cosmopolitan world view, Fadiman said. She was also a skilled orator, eventually becoming the first Asian female president of the Oxford Union, a prestigious debating forum, during her graduate studies in England...
...becomes the frontrunner going into New Hampshire. Clinton's loss raises the stakes for her in the Granite State, where she holds a slim lead in the polls. And the results throw a dark shadow over the campaign of Edwards, who has never had the strength in New England that he had on the prairie...