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...media to keep the news monster appeased. Web ads were the Molotov cocktails of campaign 2008: quick, cheap and explosive--the more outrageous, the more likely to get embedded on blogs and played for free on the news. One zany McCain ad, made around Obama's summer trip to Europe, likened Obama to actor (and pop star in Germany) David Hasselhoff. Attention-getting? Definitely. Comprehensible? Does it matter...
...challenges awaiting Iraq are visible in Dora, a neighborhood in southern Baghdad that was the scene of some of the worst urban violence during Iraq's dark days. When Lieut. Colonel Ali Abbas Hamad, deputy commander of an Iraqi police brigade, first deployed in Dora in the summer of 2007, most of the neighborhood's Christians had been driven from their homes by jihadis and militias, and the residents that remained didn't dare leave their homes. "There wasn't a car in sight," Hamad told TIME. "The only person I saw fired an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade...
...Instead, Americans need the pragmatic leadership that Barack Obama has amply demonstrated during his career in public service. Proving this maturity, he rejected a politically popular gas tax holiday last summer that would have reduced federal revenue without saving consumers money. He bases his decisions on science and empirical research, which the Bush administration has so emphatically rejected. James Heckman, a Nobel laureate in economics asked to review policy proposals by the Obama campaign, testified to this, noting, “I’ve never worked with a campaign that was more interested in what the research shows...
...opened up on Brattle Streetover the summer so we’re doing a promotion here to raise our profile,” said Sean C. Shenefield, an employee, who gave out free pizza during the show...
...voting-machine technology in as many presidential elections, ballot-mishandling in a recent local contest and a seldom-seen elections chief, Arthur Anderson, who has been seriously ill since losing his re-election bid in the August primary race. But a pleasant autumnal drop in temperature after a torrid summer has helped early Palm Beach voters like McCain backer Arelia Sayer, 54, forget the troubles. "We've got a beautiful day," Sayer said in line in Boynton Beach. "You've got to get 'er done...