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...combustion. And he's keenly aware of the deeper danger of fire for America's first black presidential nominee. Over the past 19 months, he's been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the attacks that nearly derailed him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, attacks designed to portray Obama as an angry black man. White America has embraced unthreatening African Americans like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith and Colin Powell, but this is still a majority-white country, and Obama does...
...silly-season accusations that he's a charismatic chauvinist who wants to teach kindergartners how to have sex. Over the past 18 months, Obama has been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the only attacks that clearly stung him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - attacks that portrayed him as an angry black man under the influence of an even angrier black man. (See photos of Barack Obama on the campaign trail here.) (See photos of Barack Obama backstage at the DNC here...
With the beer gone, soldiers drifted away. Winchell was taking care of the battalion's mascot, an Australian blue heeler named Nasty. Dogs aren't allowed in barracks rooms, so he pulled a cot from the third-floor room he shared with Fisher, 26, onto the open-air landing. What happened next is based on what Fisher has told the Army. His credibility is questionable, though, because he faces charges of lying to Army investigators, in addition to conspiring with Glover to murder Winchell and being an accessory to the crime. Sometime after 2 a.m., Fisher said Glover saw Winchell...
...1980s as a populist champion of the working class, Flynn, 59, is an F.D.R. Democrat who's tight with organized labor. He left city hall in 1993 to serve for four years as Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, but he still sounds more like a ward heeler than a diplomat. "I've always been a fighter for the poor people of this city, and I'll continue to do that," Flynn says one morning as he waves at rush-hour traffic. It's a well-earned boast, but it isn't backed up by much...
...Catholic parish in Liverpool, is handsome, theologically conservative--and gay. His boss, Father Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), spouts socialist dogma and has sex with his live-in housekeeper. The husband of the parish's hardest-working volunteer forces sex on their daughter. The local bishop is a ward heeler in a cassock...