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...freshly shined national-security credentials from a Vietnam veterans' group independent of the Republican Party. The group began airing in three states a 60sec. ad claiming that Kerry had lied about his war record. But the move backfired when Senator John McCain, a former Vietnam POW and a keynote speaker at the upcoming Republican Convention, blasted the ad as "dishonest and dishonorable" and called on the Bush campaign to condemn it. White House spokesman Scott McClellan took issue only with the manner in which the ad was financed...
...Sidekick II, unveiled last week and on sale this fall for $299, keeps the same basic shape but improves on the original in several ways, including a built-in digital camera with flash, a sharper display and a better speaker design. It comes preloaded with AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger. Although this version is slimmer than the original, it's slightly longer and weighs about the same. Another thing that has stayed the same is the price. Monthly fees are $20 plus the cost of your TMobile calling plan...
...becoming increasingly apparent that President Bush will let the ban on those very weapons expire one month from today. Because, though this president has said that he would sign a renewal should the bill reach his desk, he has enlisted his congressional posse—House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.—to make sure the bill never does. In turn, these men, responsible for bringing the bill to a vote, say they will do so only if the President asks them...
Davis has been throwing his considerable energy into nonprofit work. He recently paid to have a six-speaker sound system installed in a Minneapolis children's cancer-research center to see whether music provided the patients with comfort and relaxation. It did. Davis is planning meetings at several other major medical institutions to explore the possibility of a line of holistic musical balm. "You just try to connect the dots," says the Christmas elf. "One good thing might lead to another." In Davis' case, it already...
...days before homeland security Secretary Tom Ridge issued his nationwide alert, a congressional leader was warned by an FBI official that he and the other members could be personally targeted by al-Qaeda in Washington or when traveling around the country. The top leaders of Congress, such as the Speaker, party leaders and whips are already assigned Capitol Police security details to guard them. This is the second time the FBI has warned congressional leaders they could be targeted; the first such caution was issued about a year...