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Nearly the opposite has taken place on John Kerry's campaign trail, where one-on-one interviews with the candidate are more rationed. Before his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Kerry had lots of time to be chummy, tossing footballs in the aisle of his "Real Deal Express" bus and often grabbing a vacant seat next to a reporter for an off-the-record chat. But now that he's the front runner and his press contingent has grown to some 55, the Senator makes fewer off-the-cuff remarks, and he doesn't even ride...
...Secretary Don Evans and U.S. Treasury boss John Snow to bark at the Chinese about exports and the cheap value of the yuan. Lawmakers sensitive to job dislocations among their constituents have loaded into the pipeline at least six bills that relate to trade with China. Jim Leach, the Iowa Republican who chairs the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the House's International Relations Committee, says that future conflicts with Beijing will be "more about geo-economics than geopolitics" and that it's "largely up to China" to ease tensions. In 2002, China, at $103 billion, surpassed Japan...
...aide, "I thought y'all were getting me a candy bar." An empty Hostess cupcake package can often be found next to John Kerry's bus seat; he munches on the snacks for a late-night sugar rush. Howard Dean is almost Clintonian in his appetites. In Iowa he wolfed down pork sandwiches and strawberry milk shakes, and sometimes made detours to the dessert table; once, after an aide told him there was pie in the pressroom, he braved the reporters' gauntlet for a slice...
...skew the voting. Charges the Rev. Edgar Vann, a Detroit Baptist leader: "The system discriminates against older African-American voters [with] no access to the Internet." It could affect the outcome in another way, since many voters will have cast their ballots early--before Dean's ebullient speech in Iowa and John Kerry's recent surge. That could benefit Dean-who was, along with Wesley Clark, one of the two Democrats to have endorsed the plan. --By David E. Thigpen and Joseph R. Szczesny
...Amount netted in an eBay auction of Iowa caucus memorabilia...