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BARACK OBAMA Clinton's Democratic rival and the presidential front runner...
...many years, to create a campaign that can win on a big scale. His previous attempt to run as the institutional candidate, with a projected nine-figure budget, failed spectacularly last July and nearly forced him out of the G.O.P. race. Though his campaign is leaner than his rival's, McCain says he is happy with the progress. "I am pleased with the way the campaign is going," he said just before Memorial Day weekend in an airplane hangar in California's Central Valley. "I think we are going pretty well." But even as he spoke, problems were sprouting...
What's more, considering the aggressive tactics of the Clinton campaign, it's easy to see why Obama may not feel like doing his rival any favors. Clinton top strategist Howard Wolfson denied Wednesday that the campaign has had any part in organizing the protests on behalf of Michigan and Florida. But he noted, pointedly, that "given what happened in Florida in 2000 it's understandable that people feel very strongly...
...Larijani projected a presidential bearing as he accepted his election as speaker of Iran's parliament on Wednesday - a vote that boded ill for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Larijani, a high-profile arch-rival of the President, addressed global themes in his address to the opening session of the Majlis, dressing down the International Atomic Energy Agency and praising Hizballah. Despite the tough talk that was welcomed by some of the legislators with shouts of "God is great!" and "Death to America!" Larijani received a congratulatory call from European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana - an old negotiating partner. While Iran...
...conservative presidential candidate. Among those contenders may be the popular mayor of Tehran, Mohammed-Baqer Qalibaf, who has criticized Ahmadinejad's belligerent foreign policy statements and mishandling of the Iranian economy. Ahmadinejad seems to recognize the shifting winds; he let it be known that he, too, preferred his bitter rival Larijani over Haddad-Adel in the speaker contest...