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...that Iowans expect the nation's sympathy. We know we've had more than our 15 minutes. We know the national attention has been a bonanza for the state's hospitality industry, media outlets, politicians and pundits. (Des Moines fairly glowed after it was described recently as "cool" by the New York Times.) We realize that for one brief shining moment, we're no longer confused with Ohio or Idaho. "Iowa matters in a very serious way, despite all the punditry a year ago that it wouldn't," says David Redlawsk, a political science professor at the University of Iowa...
Iowans are reveling in the influx of thousands of media, staffers, volunteers and others, who are planning to usher in 2008 in Iowa. "We expect a lot more activity this year," said Des Moines Mayor T. M. Franklin Cownie, a Democrat who has endorsed Obama. "All the restaurants in the downtown area are hopping. It's going to be exciting...
...things that makes terrorism so difficult to prevent is it's designed to strike targets you don't really expect, or can't predict because they only look different from thousands of other potential targets in hindsight," says a French counter-terrorism official. "That's one reason why extremists haven't gone after political leaders often: those are the holders of real power everyone expects jihadists would want to kill...
Machetes are not something you expect to find on hard-scrabble southern farms. But there they inexplicably are, and the adorable little Cox brothers are in the habit of fencing with them on soft-focus summer days - until, accidentally, Dewey cuts his saintly sibling in two with his blade...
...expect that to spook Sarkozy into a reaction of modesty and self-effacement just yet. Careful manipulating of his private life in the press has become an established part of his communications strategy: for example, he'll invariably allow his personal life to dominate when he wants to divert media attention away from political troubles. That was certainly the case when he sprung his romance with Bruni on a French public that had been watching Sarkozy take a prolonged bashing over his hosting incorrigible Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. And it was déjà vu when he announced...