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...Gibson reshuffled the deck and cast the U.S. as the pre-emptive invader. In asking Palin whether she agreed with the Bush Doctrine, he was actually asking whether she knew what it was. There followed a long pause. But when he asked specifically whether the U.S. had the right to invade Pakistan in pursuit of suspected terrorists, she didn't hold back. "In order to stop Islamic extremists, we must do whatever it takes; and we must not blink, Charlie, in making those tough decisions of where we go and even who we target...
...service in the small Wasilla and 20 months as Alaska’s governor to Obama’s tenure as state senator and then U.S. senator for Illinois can only hurt the Republican Party. Her speech weakly hid this fact, instead comparing her tenure as mayor to his pre-Harvard Law School service as community organizer. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,” she quipped...
...McCain has reason to focus on these female voters. Going into the convention, surveys showed he was not bringing them aboard in the numbers he needed, particularly in the swing states that he must win in November. Pre-convention polls by Quinnipiac University, for instance, showed McCain with a huge "gender gap" in states like Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin, where his support among white women trailed his numbers among men by 20 percentage points, and in Colorado, where the spread was 30 points...
...embraces a tightly supervised separation from the media pack. He has not held a press conference since early August, and reporters traveling with him can go days without seeing the candidate up close, and weeks without an opportunity to exchange a word with him. In a recent pre-convention interview with TIME, McCain dismissed many of the questions - including ones that seemed benign to the reporters posing them - as gotcha attacks, and refused to answer others. He was similarly brusque in an August interview with Politico...
Textbooks in the U.S. are so expensive that even used versions can give students a sharp pain in the wallet. The 7th edition of Francis A. Carey's Organic Chemistry - a standard text for pre-med students - costs $213 new and somewhere around $150 used. Add to that the companion study guide ($113 new; $90 used) and a student would pay between $326 and $240 for just one class. With four to five classes a semester - many assigning multiple textbooks - the costs...