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...primaries in veteran-heavy states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. To underline his own family's military pedigree, Obama plans a trip in coming weeks to the Punchbowl National Cemetery in Hawaii, where his grandfather, who served in World War II, is buried. Obama and McCain's G.O.P. rival, the antiwar presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul, actually beat McCain in donations from the four branches of active military this year, according to a study by the Center for Responsive Politics...
...Rival Studio Executive (given anonymity so he/she could speak freely) It's not going to do Iron Man kind of numbers, or Prince Caspian numbers, but it should do every bit as well as Baby Mama, which opened with $17 million, or Knocked Up, which opened with around $30 million. I think it's the kind of movie that if it ends up getting well reviewed, it will probably beat the $25 million mark. This is the kind of audience that does read reviews, and if it ends up getting panned by critics who say that it doesn't deliver...
...late 1969, when the world was a much bigger, less connected place and his rival coaches were enjoying their summer holidays, Gibson took the extraordinary step of attending a National Football League conference in Hawaii. He'd felt an affinity with the U.S., having grown up believing that his father's uncle, Hugh Cooper Gibson, was Secretary of State to President Woodrow Wilson. (Much later, he learned that his great-uncle had been merely a senior official in the State Department at that time...
...police officers and a team of school-district conflict-resolution workers, who interviewed 300 students to soothe nerves and try to determine the cause of the melee. The initial assessment: About half the students told investigators the incident was racially motivated, perhaps stemming from a territorial dispute between rival gangs of "taggers," whose grafitti has increasingly shown up on the campus in recent months. The rest blame it on something more benign: ennui. "One young man said, 'This is not a racial issue. This is just people being dumb,'" says Holly Priebe-Diaz, who leads the district's intervention team...
...Congress debates the best way to fix the problem, Mexico is fast spiraling in the direction of the narco-terror that gripped Colombia in the 1980s and the early 1990s. Mexico's cartels, including the Sinaloa gang's main rival, the Gulf Cartel, have in recent years raised the scale of the bloodletting by introducing such weapons as grenades, AK-47 assault rifles and bazookas, as well as ghastly methods like mass beheadings...