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...Livestrong ride, run and walk in the Philadelphia area, some 5,000 people took part on a beautiful summer day to raise $3 million for the LAF. "These aren't fun runs," says Armstrong. "They are very emotional, tearful times." Some participants had cancer; some were survivors. And most of those who rode by bore on their backs the names of dead relatives, a rolling graveyard passing through the placid Pennsylvania countryside...
...Anyone who thinks Palin's wild ride - from the Nome Nugget to the National Enquirer in five short days - has damaged her with the party didn't hear the cheers as Thompson praised her achievements and snorted at the press. "Washington pundits and media bigshots," he declared, are tearing down someone who "has actually governed." When McCain and Palin take the oath, Thompson promised, "they're not going to care how much the alligators get irritated. They're going to drain that swamp...
...Judging from the miles and miles of bumper to bumper traffic on the major highways, many residents are heeding the official warnings this time. New Orleans native and teacher Kevin Bachemin, 44, is one of them. He was planning to ride out the hurricane in the city until he heard the dire predictions of damage that Hurricane Gustav might cause...
...Bachemin left New Orleans for Katrina in 2005 but his two-story Gentilly house withstood the storm, receiving two feet of water on the first floor. As a result, he planned to ride out Gustav at home, "when it was a [Category] 2 or even when it was a 3," he said. "Now it's a big storm" and with Nagin issuing a mandatory evacuation, "I don't have a choice. I'm getting...
...involve big risks, well, Obama likes big risks. This is a man who, with the cameras rolling in Afghanistan, elected to fire a basketball from 3-point range rather than move in for a layup. Who chose as his running mate Senator Joseph Biden, a verbal thrill ride who might say anything at any moment and very frequently does. Who - and this is the biggie - decided with just a couple of years in the Senate under his belt to take on the Clinton machine in a battle for control of the Democratic Party...