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After 11 years in the back seat, Australia's Labor Party is itching to take the wheel of government again. Four times in a row voters have rejected Labor in favor of John Howard's conservative coalition. But with a shiny-blond new leader, Kevin Rudd, trouncing Howard in popularity polls, Labor has a real chance to deprive the P.M. of a fifth term. A few days after Howard called an election for Nov. 24, betting markets were offering $2.60 for a government win; $1.50 for Labor...
...pundits are prepared to write off the P.M. just yet - or the political acumen that has helped make the conservatives seem the country's natural party of government. A confident-looking Howard launched the final campaign of his 33-year career with a bang, announcing a $34 billion tax-cut bounty - the result, he said, of the sound economic management that has brought the nation unprecedented prosperity and near-full employment...
...what Rudd, 50, is selling most is change - the NEW LEADERSHIP blazoned on Labor's billboards. "My central appeal is that we need new leadership with fresh ideas," he said. Howard, 68, stressed his government's experience and willingness to act on principle rather than opinion polls. "We don't need old leadership, we don't need new leadership. We need the right leadership," he said. Both leaders are prepared to fight hard - "down to the wire," Rudd said. But as the campaign revs up, it's Mr. New who seems to be in the driver's seat...
...Elliott Roosevelt was not the only younger sibling of an eventual President to cause his family heartaches-or at least headaches. There was Donald Nixon and the loans he wangled from billionaire Howard Hughes. There was Billy Carter and his advocacy on behalf of the pariah state Libya. There was Roger Clinton and his year in jail on a cocaine conviction. And there is Neil Bush, younger sib of both a President and a Governor, implicated in the savings-and-loan scandals of the 1980s and recently gossiped about after the release of a 2002 letter in which he lamented...
...Howard Lederer, a two-time World Poker Tour champion, and Crandell Addington, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, told the audience that poker—which is illegal in several states, including Texas—should be allowed to emerge from its backroom days...