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Bush led Al Gore in the polls for months during the 2000 election, but the instant he temporarily slipped behind, he dubbed himself the underdog. Bush is the overwhelming favorite this time, but his political team is already working hard to reset political expectations. Last week the G.O.P. leaked a deliberately gloomy memo from the President's pollster, Matthew Dowd. "President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly," Dowd wrote, "and in head to head polls in the months ahead President Bush will at times probably be behind potential Democrats." The party chairman...
...attempt to protect themselves against a disease that has officially claimed about 48 lives in the capital and may have killed untold numbers more. Many of those who venture outside wear protective masks and head straight to the supermarket, to stock up on necessities such as salt, oil and instant noodles, as if preparing for a siege. Police officers man checkpoints around the city, spraying down buses with disinfectant solution. Elementary and middle schools are closed for two weeks; some universities have refused to allow students to leave campus. The most bustling places in town are the railway stations, where...
...vertical lines of "scruff" on his chin. "Clear Line" is nothing if not the most easy-to-read kind of cartooning in the world. Rabagliati lays out the pages with simple blocks that vary enough in size and shape to avoid eye fatigue. Copying his pages would be an instant university course in how to pace a comic book...
Getting direct involvement in Arts First from the overseers, he says, made instant transformations that would otherwise have been impossible...
Even the hard-liners concede that they have confirmed absolutely nothing so far. Soldiers rooting around with rifles and test kits stumble on something suspicious, and it's an instant headline. But barrels of nerve agent have turned out to be pesticide; tip-offs about weapons sites have gone nowhere; the buried or mobile bioweapons labs have so far failed to surface. A senior Pentagon official says U.S. forces have been to several "promising" sites in southern Iraq and have come up empty. "It's there, but it's well hidden," a second Defense official insists. "It will take time...