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...comparison" ads, that his best bet still is to depress McCain votes - a tactic that may work well in Michigan because it's a state where Mike Huckabee will again find a strong base of Evangelical support. The McCain camp, however, vigorously disputes that interpretation. "We're thrilled Huck's on the air in Michigan," one McCain adviser says. "He takes votes away from Romney that we would never...
...fans of rival candidate Ron Paul shout "Tax Hike Mike" over the Huck boosters, who scream "We Like Mike," and the press is jammed by the dozens in the middle, unable to get through the front door to witness the day's crucial newsmaking moment, when the Huck-a-campaign pulls off its latest Huck-a-coup - the launch of the Huck-a-burger. Yes, this is really happening...
...campaign coup de grace came on Monday, when the schedule said Huck and Chuck would "attend the launch of the Huckaburger." So ensued the mob outside the Barley House, the chanting Paul supporters, the frustrated journalists. Few were able to see the actual burger, which consisted of bison meat on a whole wheat bun with spinach and a fried pickle, according to a senior aide. But then that may be okay for the still soaring Huckabee campaign. The fact that more than a hundred people strained outside the restaurant window for a glimpse of a piece of meat was validation...
...this case is that the market for such products is so richly diverse. Not so long ago, traders in weather futures were energy producers, insurance firms and tourism ventures - almost exclusively companies that directly had something to gain or lose from a change in the weather. "Now," says Renaud Huck, CME Group's Europe associate director, "we have equity investors, hedge funds, commodity traders and weather traders." For them - and for the financial firms racing to sell products to them - global warming comes with a silver lining...
...part of the storyteller's art to reveal a single defining moment in a character's life, the inflection point at which the reader gains some insight into what makes the person tick. Huck escapes from his father and sets off down the river. Lear banishes Cordelia. Bogart reaches into his jacket pocket and gives Bergman the papers...