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...McCain: What kind of Republican is he? In 2000, when the U.S. was at peace and the economy was luxuriating in the frothy end days of the first Internet boom, McCain's first campaign was about character and biography much more than issues. McCain was the authentic hero, the fighter pilot who had been shot down over Hanoi and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. He was the reformer and the straight talker, the rare politician who - perhaps because of his experience as a POW - wasn't going to compromise his principles or hold his tongue...
...last man, you have to make it through the apocalypse. TV's Jericho and Battlestar Galactica are about bands of survivors (of nukes and Cylons, respectively). The video game Half-Life 2 is set on an earth conquered and picked over by alien invaders (you play a resistance fighter). And then there's Cloverfield, which opened on Jan. 18 and follows a group of unsuspecting partygoers on the night a massive beast attacks New York City. (See review, page...
...Clinton's debate performance on Saturday, which the theater critics panned, actually served her well with voters and raised once more whether Democrats are looking for a fighter or a healer. ABC News brought in market researchers who hooked up voters with electrodes to monitor their brain activity. Her flash of anger when the boys ganged up played well with all of them; so did her humor, when she was asked why people don't like her: "Well, that hurts my feelings." But viewers really hated Obama's graceless barb when he told her, "You're likable enough...
John Edwards went into the Iowa caucuses last night a fighter and he emerges from them as scrappy as ever. In other words, don't assume, because he lost to Barack Obama, that Edwards is down for the count. After all, as his campaign advisers are quick to point out, by finishing second Edwards's David can claim victory over at least one Goliath. "The person hurt in all this is Hillary Clinton," Joe Trippi, an Edwards senior advisor, told TIME minutes after his candidate claimed the silver medal in Des Moines. "The former President of the United States flew...
...Although their capabilities have been diminished," Petraeus said of AQI, "you might liken them to a fighter who's been dropped to the canvas once or twice. That fighter keeps coming back off the canvas, has a very lethal right hand, and can land very tough blows...