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...is rural and conservative. Philly could be the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000 newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's??even courting the Amish...
Al Gore gave up on Ohio in October 2000. Kerry's??not walking away. And with the state economy weak, Bush's??approval rating sank to 43% in a recent poll. Bothe sides will try to win in Columbus, Dayton and Canton. Kerry needs a big turnout in Cleveland and Toledo; Bush needs it in the northwestern Farm Belt and the Cincinnati suburbs. Legal fights are already erupting over electionprocedures...
At least there's??no debating this: with roughly two weeks to go until the election, the presidential race is again locked in a virtual dead heat, according to a new TIME survey of likely voters. The narrow split-- President George W. Bush leads Senator John Kerry by a statistically insignificant margin of 2 points, 48% to 46%, with Ralph Nader pulling in a solid 3%--can be seen across almost every measure in the survey...
Carter has different skills. He is more nimble, mentally and verbally, than Reagan when confronted with an unexpected question or when his memory of governmental detail is suddenly tested. His impromptu replies may be the clearest and most carefully couched of any recent President's???a comforting quality in an office where offhand remarks can rattle the world. But Carter's mental agility does not necessarily mean he is the wiser man. His mind readily grasps detail, orders the options and focuses down on a solution to a given problem. But it often fails to place that problem...
...monumental ego is built into a performing temperament like Pavarotti's???it has to be. Yet his associates agree that he has succumbed to no more than a mild case of "tenoritis." Last month, while recording Rossini's William Tell in London, he flared up over the balance between his voice and the orchestra. "Why do 1 sound as if I'm singing in another room?" he shouted after hearing a playback. When the producer defended the balance, Pavarotti slammed his score shut and stomped out of the studio. But the next day he was back to try again. "Luciano...