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Reporters argue that seemingly small details can illuminate larger truths about a candidate. And they often do: Gore's sartorial hire told us about his insecurity as a candidate, Kerry's sandwich moment about his remoteness. When Elizabeth Edwards told an interviewer on July 17 that a female presidential candidate may by necessity be unable to fully embrace women's issues, she raised an important point. But her remarks were immediately characterized as a catfight between the Edwardses and Hillary Clinton...
...situation clearer, Rep. Waxman responded, "Your own staff told you at the time there was a problem. That's not hindsight. That's a lack of foresight." Yet, despite striking testimony by victims and his seeming acknowledgment that mistakes were made ("we're recognizing that we may have something larger than just some individual cases"), Paulison still maintained that formaldehyde might not be the problem. "There is an issue inside those trailers, but I'm not sure if it's formaldehyde, or mold, or what." At present, he said, FEMA has "documented just over 200 complaints of strange odors including...
...particular capacity to do that if we cut our troop strength in half and pull back into the desert," says Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations. Cordesman, who does not favor an immediate withdrawal, notes that all the worry about al-Qaeda in Iraq ignores the much larger threat that bin Laden's ideas already pose to U.S. interests. "Al-Qaeda does not have a center," he says. "Al-Qaeda operates in Pakistan; al-Qaeda operates in Afghanistan. It has distributed networks and affiliates in Algeria. It has ties, awkward as they are, to Hamas. We are talking...
...Like the movie itself, Henson and Cheadle are a lot of fun - until it appears that something larger than local fame is about to be thrust upon him. He instinctively understands that his success depends on the defense of his singularity, his incomparability with anyone else, and he becomes nervous, uncertain and withdrawn about moving beyond his small Washington pond - symbolized by a gig on The Johnny Carson Show, which he funks...
...Honest brokers from both sides say it never does a constituency any good to be taken for granted by either party. If Democrats rediscover a voice they lost a generation ago, they may find they are preaching to a much larger congregation. "The lessons Democrats have learned here is that they can engage [Evangelicals] on these issues," says former DNC chairman David Wilhelm. "We haven't won 'em over. But they are listening...