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Hoping to halt that habit, John Sasso, a hard-nosed party veteran, has taken up residence on Kerry's campaign plane. Sasso's job is to help target Kerry's wandering message and keep him from going wobbly. Sasso, who oversaw the beginning and the end of Michael Dukakis' ill-fated 1988 campaign, was sent aloft, as one ally put it, because the campaign lacked a Kerry peer who could tell the candidate when and where to get back in line. Although his odds are longer now, Kerry has plenty of time to turn it around, and he can take...
...Stuck In Reverse Gear British luxury carmaker Jaguar called a halt to production at its historic Coventry plant, axing hundreds of jobs. The Ford-owned marque also said it would quit Formula One racing at the end of the current season...
...That unlikely tale was Seoul's explanation last week for the startling news that its scientists had been caught enriching uranium?the very activity Washington is trying to get North Korea to halt. (Pyongyang also has a plutonium-based weapons program, the focus of continuing six-nation negotiations.) South Korea foreswore its nuclear weapons program in 1975, and has since been under the inspection regime of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. Last February, the government signed a protocol giving the IAEA the right to more information and to inspect sites anywhere in the country. Seoul had six months...
...culture?in which the ruling party and the opposition routinely charge each other with criminal behavior?has turned even more toxic. After the grenade blasts, the opposition called a two-day nationwide strike that turned violent, left hundreds of people injured, brought trains, traffic, shops and universities to a halt?and made it clear that Bangladesh has now entered uncharted political territory. "This incident has shaken the foundations of democracy in Bangladesh," says former President Badruddoza Chowdhury...
That musical was My Fair Lady, and a few months later I found myself winging back to Broadway, at which point my young career very nearly came to a screeching halt. I'd been performing professionally since I was 12 years old, and before I came to America, I must have toured the length and breadth of England many times, playing music halls, doing holiday shows and singing at concerts. Yet other than The Boy Friend, I had never done a book musical, and Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower peddler who becomes a lady, is probably one of the greatest...