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...Palin would not acknowledge a need for education prior to ascending to the second highest office in the land. Her smirking, contemptuous dismissal of community service at the Republican Convention; a litany of falsehoods, including the claim to have said "no thanks" to the Ketchikan "bridge to nowhere" and a host of discrepancies in her assertions about the investigation into abuses of power during her tenure as governor; her campaign's unprecedented demand for "deference" from a free press before answering questions - all paint a portrait of a woman who believes she has it all figured out. Scott Kenyon, Vienna...
...pointing fingers and insisting that the other team lied first. But in the main, McCain has been far quicker to throw the truth overboard--both in advertisements and on the stump. There are so many charges and countercharges about who distorted things first that we decided to spread the highest profile allegations, good and bad, across a grid measuring both accuracy and substance so you can be the judge...
...networks faced two problems. Their highest-profile new shows were unable to air complete seasons. And the strike disrupted development, giving them little new product to launch in fall...
...better part of five decades, former Laotian President Nouhak Phoumsavanh held the second highest position in what is now Laos' ruling communist organization, the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He first became involved with the group in 1945, when Laos was still under French rule, and later represented a Laotian communist organization at the 1954 conference in Geneva that ultimately resulted in independence for his homeland. Toward the end of his long tenure in government, he succeeded President Kaysone Phomvihan when he died in 1992. Nouhak, who was President through 1998, died...
...prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has decided to resign following corruption allegations involving more than $150,000 in payments from a New York businessman. Livni, 50, has served in Israel's legislature, the Knesset, for less than a decade, but was effectively put on the path to the nation's highest office after claiming victory in Tuesday's primary...