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...cancers over the years, not to mention brutal physical torture as a prisoner of war. His age and health, therefore, are of legitimate concern to voters. But McCain doesn't downplay his liabilities; he highlights them. "I'm older than dirt, with more scars than Frankenstein," he likes to joke...
...Silver State's caucus wasn't supposed to turn out a joke. On the contrary, it scored what was originally intended to be a prime early slot on the political calendar, a nod to both the growing importance of Hispanics, who make up nearly a quarter of the state's population and the power of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who hails from Nevada. It agreed to hold a caucus instead of a primary because state officials believed they it would come second in the nation after Iowa and before New Hampshire, which prizes its first-in-the-nation status...
...spectacle of Blair joining forces with conservatives like Sarkozy to strengthen his bid for the E.U. presidency may also irritate the leftist and center-leftist leaders of Spain, Portugal, and Italy. For that reason, Blair's joke about his reaction to Sarkozy's policy of governmental opening to former members of leftist parties may ring sinister in some ears. "In the United States I'd be a Democrat, and in the United Kingdom I'm a Labourite," Blair quipped in his speech. "And in France, I'd be ... in the government...
...open up to the press. Off the record, of course. She would come back to the press section of the plane, dressed in a sweatshirt, wearing her Coke-bottle eyeglasses, and schmooze. I have a picture of the two of us, heads thrown back, laughing at some long-forgotten joke as we headed home...
...open up to the press. Off the record, of course. She would come back to the press section of the plane, dressed in a sweatshirt, wearing her Coke-bottle eyeglasses, and schmooze. I have a picture of the two of us, heads thrown back, laughing at some long-forgotten joke as we headed home...