Word: karl
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...answer came swiftly from President Bush's outraged Christian base: a lot more. Religious leaders in the U.S. assailed the White House, with activists like Jay Sekulow--who helped rally support for Bush's Supreme Court nominees--bombarding Karl Rove's evangelical liaison with e-mail. Within 48 hours, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had called Afghan President Hamid Karzai and urged Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, who was visiting Washington, to spare Rahman. President Bush declared, "We have got influence in Afghanistan, and we are going to use it to remind them that there are universal values." A White House...
...them showed up to see him at a $1,000-a-plate private fund raiser for Senator Rick Santorum last week in Sewickley Heights, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Santorum posed for photos with the President at the airport and leaned into a smiling handshake with political guru Karl Rove. But it was telling that Santorum, who is trailing state treasurer Bob Casey by 10 points in the latest polls, scheduled no public appearances with Bush. When Cheney flew to Newark, N.J., earlier in the week to raise nearly $400,000 that state senator Tom Kean Jr. badly needs...
...This is Karl Rove's worst nightmare: a large crowd has gathered in a restaurant in the small town of Montrose, Pa., on a sunny Sunday afternoon in February to listen to the Democratic candidate running in the 10th Congressional District, a rural conservative bastion considered "safe" for Republicans. The candidate, Chris Carney, is soft-spoken and well informed. The audience is enthusiastic and predominantly Democratic, but peppered with Republicans who seem every bit as angry about the Bush Administration as do the Democrats. One man, dressed in a jacket and tie, stands up and confesses he's a lifelong...
...toughest races. "The district is so Republican that no one really thinks he can win, even with Sherwood's problems," says G. Terry Madonna, who runs Franklin and Marshall College's Keystone Poll. But Iraq-war veterans running as Democrats is something new under the political sun-and Karl Rove's nightmare is that candidates like Carney will win some unexpected races this year...
...week: 4) Keeping a cat in your room. Who isn't these days? 2 (Last week: -) Zithromax, a.k.a. Z-PAX. LA stars and Leverett slugs alike love this flu antibiotic for its slimming side effects. 3 (Last week: -) ConnectU.com. Will blow up any day now. 4 (Last week: 1) Karl Malone. 5 (Last week: 2) Wondering at what point you're supposed to stop doing drugs. Is it when you graduate...