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...same people knocking her are the ones who said Hillary Clinton couldn't sell herself outside New York City." She adds that if Democrats must win the north Florida vote that eluded Gore last year, they must also retain the massive black anti-Jeb Bush turnout that kept Gore neck and neck with W. in the state...
...camels lope up to the start line, men shouting, animals bellowing. The riders sit on camel saddles, their feet resting forward in the curve of each camel's neck. A bridle runs back from a silver ring through each animal's right nostril. The camels crowd together as the starter raises his starting stick, but before he can drop it, a huge cheer sends the camels lurching forward in one heaving mass. Their long legs kick forward, riders bobbing to and fro atop 60 dancing humps. The race comprises two laps of Timia's valley floor - less than 4 miles...
...side of a dune one day's camel ride from Timia, a camel skeleton bakes in the searing sun. A few patches of heat-hardened skin cling to the chalky, white bone. The sun bleached vertebrae of the neck lie in a graceful curve where the animal fell; a couple of ribs have been pulled away by a scavenger. "I feel my life has been hard and I know Adam's will be hard too," says Adam's uncle Saghdou. His eyes hang low in his weathered face, dragged down by time. "The desert is our enemy. It's like...
...divide stood in stark relief Tuesday, when, in a neck-and-neck primary whose see-sawing lead recalled election-night coverage of Florida last November, Burg appeared to edge out current defense minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer - pending the outcome of a recount, and the efforts of both men's lawyers. At stake: the direction of the party that led the Jewish state into the Oslo Accords but is now the junior partner in a coalition led by a fierce opponent of that peace process...
...rule that allows one change of direction per lap to dart across the track at the start of races. But those were just mild complaintsin comparison to the nadir his reputation hit after the final race of 1997, the European Grand Prix at Jerez. Then driving for Ferrari and neck-and-neck for the championship with Jacques Villeneuve, Schumacher was surprised by an audacious overtaking move from the Williams driver and tried to hold his line by slamming into Villeneuve's side. He succeeded only in bouncing himself off the track and handing Villeneuve the championship. Today he maintains...