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...Rudy Giuliani announced his candidacy on Larry King Live; Mike Huckabee did it on Meet the Press; Hillary Clinton formally threw her hat in the ring via a short Web video; and John Edwards made his intentions known with off-the-cuff remarks in the front yard of a devastated house in New Orleans' Ninth Ward...
...dissonance. Corporations and political parties routinely say one thing (the GOP is the party of strict values) and do another (the party let Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who unlike Craig holds a swing-state seat, get off with a simple apology after he was linked to a female prostitution ring). The GOP's moralizers deserve some pity. The party itself, not so much...
First thing is, you don't have to worry about whether Michael Vick will be playing this season. He'll be playing. For me. Without pads. In a small ring. In a league made of teams of pit bulls. You know who man's new best friend is, Michael? The back of my damn paw. Also, I'm going to sit at the table and eat food and, when Vick comes by, not offer him any. I'll put out a little bit of water in a tiny, unappetizing flat bowl, and when he goes to drink...
...surge work? Yes and no. After Bush kicked a handful of other generals out or upstairs early this year, Petraeus changed tactics abruptly, threw a ring of fresh troops around most of Baghdad and crimped the flow of explosives into the city, making life there markedly better. The surge took place in a belt of outposts around the capital, where troops barricaded roads into the city, worked with local residents to flush out insurgents and spent millions creating safe zones where markets and normal life could return. Average Iraqis tell Time that Baghdad feels safer; sectarian violence in the capital...
...download site marks a radical departure from the traditional way of doing things in which handset makers like Nokia have to sell their phones to mobile operators like Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and 02. And those companies, in turn, sell services - not just voice calls but increasingly things like ring tones, music and other forms of entertainment - to consumers. In listening to Kallasvuo on Wednesday though, it was clear that Nokia is messing with the status quo. "This world does not work the way the old world worked," he said, explaining that Nokia is now an Internet company. "We have...