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...degrees and sunny this morning at his meet-and-greet at a Sunny Isles Beach deli. He likes to say he banked on Florida because of electoral realities and limited resources; he thought it was a big state he could win "given my positions, given the pros and cons." But at the Orange County Republican dinner Saturday night, Rudy made a telling quip: "People pay a lot of money to spend the month of Florida in January." When the political science classes ponder the remarkable collapse of the Giuliani '08 campaign, they might come to think...
...fees, hockey is also prohibitively expensive for many urban families. "How are you going to convince parents to pay $6,000 so their kids can play hockey?" asks Coleman. The NHL could invest more money to subsidize these costs for potential players, but with so few African-American pros in the sport today, who could these kids emulate? Why would they even bother with hockey, when they see so many African-Americans succeeding in basketball, football, and other sports...
With rare exceptions, the media railbirds and political pros roll their eyes. Even "America's mayor," they reason, cannot bypass a month of electoral fever with some early bird-dinner glad-handing. "We recognized, by doing this unconventional approach, there would be a good deal of criticism," says Mike DuHaime, Giuliani's campaign manager. "But we have used our time well...
...With rare exceptions, the media railbirds and political pros roll their eyes. Even "America's mayor," they reason, cannot bypass a month of electoral fever with some early bird?dinner glad-handing. "We recognized, by doing this unconventional approach, there would be a good deal of criticism," says Mike DuHaime, Giuliani's campaign manager. "But we have used our time well...
Millions of parishioners already know the feeling. Every year, thousands of churches, chapels and monasteries across Europe are robbed of their most beloved and valuable artworks. From small-time crooks trying to earn drug money to seasoned pros who snatch massive canvases, art thieves are erasing a significant part of the religious heritage of some of the most culturally rich countries. "Our churches are being pillaged," says Captain Dominique Lambert of France's Central Office for the Fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods (OCBC). "They take everything - statues, paintings, chalices, silverwork. When a Virgin Mary is stolen from a church...