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...especially when it comes to defending the President's collapsed rationale for going to war with Iraq. It was no accident that Bush did a (pre-eruption) Mount St. Helens imitation during the foreign-policy part of the debate. The domestic-policy section was fascinating--in part, because we hadn't heard the two men debate these issues before and also because Bush had a comprehensible, if questionable, philosophy: lower taxes, smaller government. And in part because Kerry indulged in some serious baloney slicing...
...boat arrivals, this time the focus was much closer to home. "It's all about the economy," said 28-year-old supporter Stephanie Miles. "I know people who don't like John Howard but they voted for him because the economy's working. It's all working." The equation hadn't always seemed so simple. When Howard called the election on Aug. 29, he went into the campaign with his mantle askew, hounded by an increasingly confident Opposition over claims by a former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign...
...Among the crowd - mostly volunteers and local branch members - the inclination is to face up to a disastrous result rather than spin it. Self-described "Labor stalwart" Phil Fullerton says Latham hadn't been long enough in the job to convince enough people he was ready for the big one. "A lot of people like John Howard," he adds. "I don't know why. But they do." Young father Scott Ison says the P.M. had appealed successfully to Australians' basest instincts, adding: "People would struggle to agree on one theme he believes in." Many are convinced that ads predicting interest...
...free-trade agreement that could boost the $A800 billion Australian economy by $A5 billion a year. Signing it in June, Bush said, "The United States and Australia have never been closer." That deal "wouldn't have gone through so quickly with so little opposition in the U.S. if we hadn't been seen as a good ally," says Dupont. "The idea that Australia is looked down on in Washington as a lickspittle is wrong," says Stephen Morris, a historian of U.S. policy in Asia at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. "Australia is respected and its role in the alliance...
More than 40 years after June Cleaver, TV has again discovered the American housewife. She may wish it hadn't. In ABC's Desperate Housewives (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a suburban mom (Brenda Strong) wakes up one morning, does her chores, then shoots herself in the head. Her suicide leads her friends to question their own unhappy lives, from the career woman mired at home with her unruly kids (Felicity Huffman) to the maniacally perfect Martha Stewart wannabe (Marcia Cross...