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...since the U.S. announced several years ago that it planned to spread its missile-defense system to Europe, Moscow has seen it as a ploy designed to emasculate its last remaining claim to superpower status: its nuclear might. In the two decades since the Soviet Union?s demise, its slide into international irrelevancy has only been slowed by its nuclear arsenal-and the recent rise in oil prices, which has enabled Russia to begin to climb out of its post-superpower depression...
...quickly - and rightly - criticized the polls' methodology, claiming each over-sampled self-identified Democrats. Other polls, like those by Gallup, Rasmussen and Time, suggest a narrower race. But the Obama folks capitalized on the perception shift by dispatching campaign manager David Plouffe to Washington, where he gave a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation demonstrating just how confident they are. Plouffe identified 18 "battleground" states, all but four of which (Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin) voted for Bush in 2004. "Our strategic orientation now is to play offense," Plouffe said with a trace of a smile. He added: "The point...
Visit time.com/dailyfood to hear Jacob Goddard narrate a slide show about a day in his life
...Broadway debut in early December, sharing in the rave reviews. Less than three months later, he died. "Dad did eight shows a week until late January," says his son. "Then he went into the hospital for what we thought was a short spell. But he hit a rapid slide and never came out. He went from being onstage to dead in about three weeks. It was something...
...INCONVENIENT TRUTH: THE OPERA Including the hit aria May I have the next slide, please...