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...model (prices start at $25,000) includes an automatic lift gate and a rearview camera. Honda has upped the safety margin too, with side air bags, curtain air bags and a frame that dissipates energy in a crash. The Odyssey is aiming for European handling, a stretch for any minivan, but the 255-h.p. variable-assist engine (it turns off unneeded cylinders) gives an able approximation. --By Bill Saporito
...Jeffrey P. Clemens ’06, armed with a bundle of pro-Bush pamphlets, bounds toward the first address on his canvassing route Saturday morning. But halfway to the doorstep, he notices the “Be Patriotic! Vote Bush Out!” bumper sticker on the minivan in the driveway...
...streak turns sour when a Kerry supporter unloading her toddler from the backseat of a minivan shakes her hand in Clemens’ face and yells, “Boo, boo, go away.” So Clemens cheers up when he encounters a Bush supporter hosting a yard sale at the next stop on the route. Clemens swaps a Republican party flier and $1.50 for a space heater and two t-shirts...
...recently released by the Bush campaign is set somewhere in suburbia, featuring a mother jogging with a stroller and a father with his minivan; the voiceover, which sounds like it’s straight out of a scary movie, drones “History’s lesson: Strength builds peace. Weakness invites those who would do us harm.” Mixing images of Middle America with threats of imminent terrorist attacks if Kerry is elected—on account of his enigmatic “weakness”—is a detestable ploy to get voters...
...credible contender for Prime Minister - especially since 61% of voters in a recent MORI survey disapproved of Blair's job performance. Howard's appeal was evident early this month on a campaign stop in Eastbourne, on England's south coast, when he propelled himself out of a minivan to press the flesh. Though once famously skewered by another Tory minister for having "something of the night" about him - an allegedly dark and devious side - Howard, 62, appeared invigorated by sunny retail politics, chatting with local councillors and police, and grabbing passersby to ask, "Are you going to vote Conservative...