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...bookies ended up reversing their odds, and a big turnout of voters seems to have pushed Ahern ahead in the home stretch. An exit poll by the state broadcaster, RTE, predicts 41.6% of the vote for Fianna Fail, which is probably enough to enable Ahern to form a new coalition. Power is certainly convinced Ahern will pull it off. Before counting began the bookmaker announced he was paying out to gamblers who wagered on Ahern remaining Taoiseach...
...discredited forerunner in the Taoiseach's office, described Ahern admiringly as "the most cunning, the most devious, the best of them all." Even so, voters seem to trust him. Frank Luntz, the U.S. pollster who has recently been taking the country's temperature for Ireland's national broadcaster rte, says Ahern gives "the impression of being human and personable and genuinely likable. While people may be disappointed with the government, they're not disappointed with him." Fiona Sherlock, just 18 and looking forward to voting for the first time, is happy to have met a hero at the checkout...
...Margaret's murderers are not the images we'll remember. Her family, her colleagues, the foreign correspondents who cherished her advice and the tens of thousands of Iraqis who benefited from her work will never forget all the good she did. ?By Richard Downes, reporter for Irish TV station RTE...
...improve the country's faltering water, health and education systems. A few months before the war began, Hassan told TIME the sanctions against Iraq had helped create "a dependent society with little or no ability to improve its situation." Says Richard Downes, a reporter for Irish television station RTE who knows Hassan well and last saw her in February: "She blames Britain and America for what has happened in Iraq. The last time I met her, she was apoplectic with rage. She feared for the future of the country." To date, no foreign women kidnapped in Iraq have been killed...
...little personal hygiene? Although time machines haven’t yet been invented, there is King Richard’s Faire, which features magicians, musicians, jugglers, fire eaters, swordsmen, soothsayers, vittles, brew, crafts and more. Through Sun., Oct. 26. 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets $22. Faire Site, Rte. 58, South Carver...