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...court this constituency, Democrats and Republicans have long advertised in overseas English-language newspapers in election years, but this time they also sent a stream of prominent supporters to campaign abroad. Kerry's sister, Diana, chairman of Americans Overseas for Kerry, swung through six European cities last month to shore up support. Bush adviser Karl Rove, the President's aunt, Nancy Bush Ellis, and former Vice President Dan Quayle have all hit the European trail as part of the re-election campaign. No group is too small to court. Four congressional candidates phoned in to a recent fund-raising dinner...
Alarmed by the possibility that Karzai might not win in the first round (experts say he would win a runoff against any single candidate), the President's supporters--including the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad--are scrambling to shore up votes. Senior Afghan officials, U.N. representatives and Western diplomats all claim that Khalilzad, an energetic Afghan American, is trying to induce several candidates--including the President's main rival, Qanooni--to drop out and throw their support behind Karzai. The ambassador denies that, even though one candidate, Mohammed Mohaqiq, went public with such an accusation. Khalilzad and Karzai dine...
Mushrush, who directs the University’s South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Brockton, is targeted in another pending discrimination suit alleging that she withdrew an offer of admission to an applicant after learning the applicant was pregnant...
Last April, when spring practices rolled around, a casual observer might have noticed surprisingly few familiar faces in the Crimson wide receiver corps. Gone was James Harvey, shifted over to defense to shore up a weakened Harvard secondary. Gone was Rodney Byrnes, ineligible to play to due academic reasons...
...fire up some consumer spending, but not enough to add jobs, and would worsen the deficit. "We can't afford them anymore," says Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One. Shrinking the deficit or making big changes to the health-care system, the experts say, would do more to shore up business confidence and boost hiring...