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...McCain and Hillary Clinton or John McCain and Barack Obama will not leave voters feeling they have to choose between the lesser of two evils. These match-ups provide Americans with clear choices on the war in Iraq, health care, cures for the economy and judicial appointments.On the Republican side, the nominating process produced McCain, the strongest general election candidate in the field of GOP contenders, according to the polls.On the Democratic side, the spirited battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is generating record turnouts of new Democratic voters, with huge increases especially in the female, African-American...
...Kowalcky, the mayor’s liaison for higher education at the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), said she disagreed with the idea that the BRA had green-lighted Harvard’s expansion at the expense of the community, adding that her agency was not an advocate for either side, but rather a “broker” to the entire process...
...holding court a few feet away. I could have salvaged what dignity I still had, and walked out in principled protest. But then I saw Isiah Whitlock Jr., the actor who played the corrupt Sen. Clay Davis on HBO's The Wire, standing with his hands at his side. Before I knew what I was doing, I had walked over and asked if I could get him a drink from...
...side of the clearing on the remote border, Sudanese government soldiers bristled with weapons and kept a lookout. To the other, there was little but an impenetrable wall of Congolese bush. In between gathered an eclectic mix of Sudanese mediators, Ugandan government ministers, journalists, rock-and-roll activists and tribal chiefs, all hoping to witness what should have been the end of one of Africa's longest and least understood wars...
...officials say their blue helmets are ready to take the fight to the LRA. On the day Uganda's President was meant to sign his side of the peace deal in Sudan, Museveni put on a show of force and implied he was ready to help the Sudanese stop the LRA attacks. Regional diplomats say they are pushing for more cooperation against the LRA. But that is all likely to be bluster. "We are not talking with the group because they have political legitimacy but because they can't be beaten militarily," said one exasperated follower of the peace talks...