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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parties will have settled on their nominees fully eight months before Election Day, giving a depressingly early launch to what promises to be a brutal general-election campaign. At the same time, however, it could be harder for a front runner in either primary to deliver an early knockout punch to the rest of the field. "The odd effect could be to elongate the process, not shorten it," says former Republican chairman Ken Mehlman, who was George Bush's 2004 campaign manager. "On each side, there will be two or three candidates who will have the resources to survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only 648 Days Until the Election! | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

Raymond McCord is, in local parlance, a ?hard man? - one of the tough guys that seem to grow out of the cracks in the sidewalk in the little working-class streets between Belfast's docks and its hills scarred by heavy industry; men who could take a punch, and then another, and keep on throwing. Generations of conflict between Protestants and Catholics only hardened the alloy. But McCord, 53, a powerfully built welder from a Protestant family, always showed his mettle in standing up to the sectarian men of violence. Having grown up in North Belfast, the crowded, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Belfast Father's Vindication | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

...another profile model, Chris Walker is experimenting with behavioral matchmaking. An early innovator, he started in the 1960s with punch card computer dating. After years of matching people, he now focuses on how people choose to spend their time. Infopersonals.com also asks for frank answers on back hair, relationships with exes and the number of sexual partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet Dating 2.0 | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...Congress to ratify or reject his request. But neither the Constitution's genius nor more than two centuries of experience have managed to make this a contest between equals. As has happened so often in the past, Congress will once again be struggling to punch above its weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Founders' Fuzziness | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...juice.Guarana is life.One time, guarana took on Chuck Norris. The result: draw.So the next time someone comes up to you and says, “BAWLS is nothing, it won’t make you crazy, awesome, or energized in the least, my good sir,” you punch that cat right in his mouth. It’s science, so he must hate science. And anyone who hates science is no friend of mine. Because science rules.I don’t know about you, but if anyone ever came up to me and said, “BAWLS...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bawls to the Wawl | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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