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Defining Dean A candid conversation with the doctor from Vermont about who he is and how he went from the fringe to the front of the pack...
...never does--a descent into standard party cant. Democrats are almost always depressed about the economy and rarely obsessed by foreign policy. It was doubly odd because Iraq has been Dean's signature issue. He would probably be an asterisk today if he hadn't stepped out from the pack and opposed the war. And the election of 2004 is bound to be, in the end, a referendum on George W. Bush's historic pre-emptive decision to route the war on terrorism through Baghdad...
Life is so simple when you are at the back of the pack. No one picks on you, and no one picks up on your gaffes. When the Democratic presidential race started to take shape a year ago, few bothered to attack the quirky doctor who was an ex-Governor of a small New England state. He barked and blustered, but the Democratic establishment and the media saw in him little more than entertainment value. He stood on the wrong side of a popular President's war and outside the party establishment, within which the winner would be anointed...
...rather quit than fight. That was the logic behind last week's hike in French cigarette prices - the third in a series of increases over the past year that have made the deadly habit 30-50% more expensive for France's 20 million smokers. The tax boost - elevating a pack of Marlboros to 35 - brings French cigarette prices to the third-highest in Europe (behind the U.K. and Norway ), and increases revenues to treat tobacco-related diseases that cause 66,000 deaths in France annually. Infuriated French tobacconists claim the move is pricing them out of business, and encouraging...
Dartmouth, meanwhile, has seen the largest rise in fan attendance this season. The Big Green averaged about 550 fans per game at this point last season. This season, nearly 1,100 fans on average pack into Thompson Arena when school in session...