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...hands of the people," he said after he voted, "and I feel very comfortable with that." He was host of a gin-rummy tournament on Air Force One as he headed from Crawford back to the White House to wait out the results. It was on the plane that strategist Karl Rove started calling around to get the results of early exit polls. But the line kept breaking down. The only information that came through as the plane descended was a BlackBerry message from an aide that simply read: "Not good." Not long afterward, Rove got a more detailed picture...
...none too keen when his handlers took him off the road for four precious days so that he could go to "debate camp" in Wisconsin. Hadn't he been training off and on all summer? Hadn't he memorized all those briefing books they kept sending to the plane? Hadn't he spent two whole days in Nantucket, Mass., in August, practicing, practicing, practicing, especially the foreign policy answers...
...time Kerry boarded his plane for Miami, he had gone through four full 90-minute dress rehearsals and more hours than anyone could count refining the back-and-forth on every conceivable question. But before they left that shed for the last time, Kerry took Klain aside. "You know, when we came here, I wasn't sure what I'd get out of it," Kerry told him. "But this has been really, really useful...
...government of Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar may have been out of power for seven months, but it's still coming under heavy fire. The latest scandal concerns the May 26, 2003, plane crash that claimed the lives of 62 Spanish soldiers who were returning from peacekeeping duty in Afghanistan when their Ukrainian-registered Yakovlev-42 aircraft went down in the mountains of Turkey. Aznar's government was criticized by the families of the deceased for transporting them in an old plane in such poor condition. Now it turns out that the bodies...
...Square’s pit of consumption can be difficult to resist. Elizabeth J. Heymann ’06 spends most of her money on big purchases like plane tickets to visit her boyfriend but she admits, “What kills my budget are runs to Starbucks and impulse buys at Aldo.” The latte factor can be significant for Harvard’s fatigued students—coffee is more than caffeine; it’s a warm, satisfying drink with a bonus jolt. “Last year I went [to Starbucks] on average five...