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...normal year, a year when the public would have a week or two to digest this night, my guess is that this speech would have a dramatic impact on the race - and it still might. But by tomorrow night, it won't even be the lead story on the evening news. McCain's vice presidential selection will be. And then McCain will have the luxury of going second - batting last - next week, staging a convention that will, no doubt, lacerate Obama and the Democrats and then climax with McCain telling his incredible life story. By this time next week, Obama...
...disputes the standard separate-lives narrative of the McCain marriage, though there have been signs of tension in the past. They decided to raise their children in Arizona, she says, because her roots there were deep and they could give the kids a normal childhood. He was home every weekend, she says, and now she's urgent, insistent: "I want people to understand, he was not a father who was from afar. He was very involved with his kids and in our relationship. I felt like we saw more of him by living out in Arizona because when...
...more than three decades in the citrus business, Doug Bournique has never seen such a downpour over Florida's Treasure Coast and Space Coast regions. It's been impossible to pump the stormwater out quickly because adjacent bodies of water are also above normal level. "We're in unchartered territory. I've never seen it this wet," says Bournique, executive director of the Indian River Citrus League, which includes 900 grower-members from Palm Beach County north to the Daytona Beach area. "It really was a one-in-100-year rainfall event for this region...
Barack Obama's challenges at the four-day Democratic national convention in Denver fall into two categories. The first are all the normal tests set out for any non-incumbent seeking the presidency-introducing himself, defining an agenda, making a positive impression, etc. Relatively speaking, these...
...that it ended up adopting peace as a national virtue - during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics flocks of dove-shaped balloons were released into the air, underlining the not-so-subtle point that Japan wasn't about to declare war anytime soon - the return to traditions is refreshingly, well, normal...