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...afterwards, all anyone wanted to talk about was Iraq. The scrum of reporters outside the Straight Talk Express was thick and vaguely hostile, tossing repeated questions about the few paragraphs in the speech that mentioned the war. In what might be the single most depressing understatement of the year, McCain noted it "has not gone well." But anyone expecting a shift in policy was disappointed. Rather, he reiterated the points that he had previewed to Jon Stewart the night before - that we made mistakes getting into the war, that we shouldn't make the same mistakes again and well, there...
...presidential candidates aren't the only ones vying to get in front next year. Tired of the outsize roles New Hampshire and Iowa have played in the nomination process, more than a dozen other states, including Nevada (see page 54), are joining a virtual presidential-selection scrum, hoping to grab a slice of the influence early voters get to exert. Here are some other states that have officially moved up their primaries. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] STATE DATES POSSIBLE IMPACT ALABAMA Old: June New: Feb. 5 A critical gauge of who will carry...
Voltaire must be spinning in his grave. Just down the Parisian hill from where the Enlightenment's greatest satirist is interred, a noisy scrum of intolerance is drawing any public figure with an image to market, clamoring to deliver a sound bite before the row dies down and the cameras move...
...vision. When a running back takes the football from the quarterback, chaos greets his line of sight: a dozen massive men pound one another at the line of scrimmage, trying to create, or prevent, a split-second opening for the back to slip through. Tomlinson's eyes process the scrum like internal software, letting him spot the holes. "It seems like things are happening in slow motion, and you're kind of moving through everything with ease," Tomlinson says. "It's a nice feeling...
...charter change, has become the Philippines' preferred catchphrase for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's push for a constitutional amendment that would shift the nation from an American-style bicameral legislature to a single-house parliamentary system. But political wrangling over the proposal is looking more like a rugby scrum than a pas de deux...