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...Still, the evening was long on serious policy issues and short on one-liners, in keeping with the subdued tone of the campaign throughout the day as the nation remembered the tragedies of 9/11. Both camps agreed to suspend their campaign ads, and Obama and McCain visited the World Trade Center site together. (Obama had lunch with Bill Clinton in his Harlem office earlier in the day, while McCain visited Shanksville, Pa., the crash site of United Flight 93.) Given that most polls have shown the race to be tightening, the candidates will no doubt be eager to get back...
...spelling out his first name explode in the background. Could it be that Gervais takes the piss out of arrogance because there's so much of it in him? Because when you watch--and you must--the video of More to Lose, the early '80s single from his very serious pop band Seona Dancing, in which Gervais stares moodily into the camera, his hair flapping like a flock of seagulls, you realize this is not a man unsure of his awesomeness...
...wars on the ground, it’s truly depressing to note that the leading cause of early discharge from the armed forces is excess weight. Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona has even gone so far as to argue that the public health risks of obesity are as serious as those of weapons of mass destruction...
...been involved in a bitter divorce and custody dispute with Sarah Palin's younger sister Molly McCann since 2005. Monegan's refusal to remove Wooten was, he said, part of what led to his firing. If Monegan's accusations are true, it would be a serious abuse of the power of the governor - not to mention a major blow to her image as a good-government reformer - suggesting that she used her office and the office of many of the state's top functionaries to settle an old family score. On Friday, the retired Alaska prosecutor investigating whether Palin abused...
...Iraq and later sent constituents copies of a speech Blair made in support of the invasion. "The problem with Blair is that he was a liberal interventionist without a hand brake," says Cameron now. "There was no limit to his ambition." That led, in Cameron's view, to a serious imbalance in relations with Washington. "Blair was too much the new friend telling you everything you want to hear rather than the best friend telling you what you need to hear." What Britain should be to the U.S., says Cameron, is "the candid friend, the best friend...