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...group, with no real alternative, ratified the position that had been laid out in Kenyatta’s letter, and Tyler went to work writing editorials in defense of their position...
...Which helps explain why her campaign, as it begins to shut down, has spent so much time been searching plaintively for factors - the rules, the media, latent sexism - to explain the outcome. One party operative laid some of the inability to see reality at the former president's feet. "He's never lost. I mean, there have been times when he hasn't won. But as far as he's concerned, he's never lost. And so this has to be explained somehow...
...powerful lights and generators and lobbed grenades and petrol bombs for more than three hours, killing 55 people. Last December, in the same area, a single Maoist overpowered a jail guard and set free 294 inmates, including 15 senior Naxalite fighters. In February this year, more than 100 insurgents laid siege to three police stations, a police outpost, a police training school and a government armory in the state of Orissa, killing 13 policemen and a bystander and hauling off hundreds of rifles, semiautomatics, light machine guns, pistols and ammunition. Not a single Maoist was killed. Include government security forces...
Though he originally hoped to be a doctor, Cornell Capa followed his elder brother, famed war photographer Robert, into the family business, taking photographs from South America to the Soviet Union and giving birth to the idea of socially aware "concerned photography." His most enduring contribution came after he laid down his camera. In 1974 he founded the International Center of Photography, a museum chronicling the medium's history--in which Capa played a seminal role...
...McCain's problems can be laid at the feet of the incumbent. His penchant for sometimes impulsive action has, in one high-profile case, backfired on his campaign. Reports surfaced in early May that two campaign aides had worked a few years earlier representing the military junta in Burma. When he read the news, he was furious and ordered up a strict new policy against lobbyists on his team. "McCain wasn't happy, and he acted quickly," says an associate of the Senator's. "He said, 'I want the strictest policy against lobbyists we can have, the strictest anybody...