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...postcard-perfect beaches of Cambodia's scores of islands and 270 miles (435 km) of southern shore have gone largely unnoticed by developers for the past 40 years. But in 2007, a record 2 million tourists visited Cambodia, signaling that the country was beginning to shake its killing fields image as an impoverished backwater where wandering off the beaten path could mean finding yourself astride an unexploded land mine. Cambodia is starting to register as a must-see destination, and it's not all about Angkor Wat. Brackish mangrove swamps and remote beaches are being envisaged as golf courses...
Obama still can't totally shake Clinton, and the flap over her Robert F. Kennedy comment ensures further intraparty strife. But some Republicans see McCain as ill-defined to voters and slipping in the polls, even before Obama's likely victory-lap bump...
...museum itself? It's entertaining and briskly informative, filled with flat-screen TVs showing period footage and glass cases that hold things like old Jefferson Airplane album covers. I enjoyed it well enough. But I was never able to shake the feeling that the place that really preserves the spirit of Woodstock is that big open field outside. Woodstock was the last great event of the 19th century, a delayed outburst of Romantic-era communalism and nature worship. It was built on sentiments that aren't conveyed very well by institutional means. So if you visit the museum, which...
...crews to capture the two men together. Privately, his advisers say they are confident that the candidate's reputation as his own man will overcome the Bush stain. But no one doubts it will be a challenge. Says Terry Nelson, who ran the McCain campaign until a staff shake-up last summer: "Frankly, anybody sitting at that table would have an immensely difficult time sorting through what is the winning message for the Republican nominee...
...that California’s Supreme Court had made a similar decision and said they were cognizant of its profound implications. Harvard Law professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, who teaches constitutional law, said of the ruling, “It’s certainly going to shake things up, now that Massachusetts isn’t out on such a limb.” But Tribe, who is also a former clerk for the California Supreme Court added that the ruling “is not going to start a bunch of dominoes,” emphasizing...