Word: heartlanders
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...cruel fate for the co-hosts, who put out maximum effort in both of its matches and got nothing to show for it. And the wash-out was just the beginning for Swiss fans: by the end of the week all their ethnic cousins in Europe's soccer heartland were faring far worse than predicted after Germany lost to the Croats, Italy squeaked through with a draw against Romania, and the French team was handed an ignoble 4-1 defeat by the Dutch...
...Look at the Map An old-fashioned road atlas is a good Michelin guide for three-star running mates. The right choice can add balance to a nominee whose roots may seem a tad too effete to go over well in the heartland - or add some coastal glitz to a rural candidate's prairie-flat steadiness. As it happens, the last two candidates to make their picks with geography clearly in mind - John Kennedy in 1960 and Michael Dukakis in 1988 - were both from Massachusetts. And they both picked Texas Senators - Lyndon Johnson and Lloyd Bentsen - for the second spot...
From Ohio to Louisiana, in swing states and the heartland, John McCain and Barack Obama are turning their attention to the next big decision of the 2008 election cycle: choosing a running mate. Both men have needs to fill. McCain's weaknesses call for a younger leader who can shore up conservative support while representing a new direction for the GOP (and appears ready to be President if necessary, given McCain's age). Obama must build a bridge to centrist white voters while bolstering his foreign policy credentials and improving his support among women, many of whom think he should...
...Ripe for Revolution A recent - and extremely rare - trip into a Naxalite zone in the state of Chhattisgarh shows just how much control the Maoists have in India's neglected heartland. After weeks of negotiating, I received word from a senior commander there that cadres from the area would escort a photographer and me into the field to meet a rebel unit. After an early morning, two-hour motorbike ride along dirt roads south of the town of Dantewada, across rivers where women beat their clothes against rocks and through villages full of thatched and terracotta-roofed huts, scrawny chickens...
...some ways, the federal forces who arrived earlier this month were being deployed behind enemy lines, as a show of strength in the heartland of Mexico's drug trade. And that sense may have been underscored, on Tuesday, when local gangsters gunned down seven federal officers raiding a local house - one of the worst ever losses suffered by the agency. Newspaper editorials despaired that government forces have never appeared so vulnerable. Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna retorted that the villains had a home-ground advantage, and ordered more troops to Sinaloa. "We need to be in the very place...