Word: superealism
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...scions' friendship has thrived despite some searching tests. They were opposing generals in Australia's rugby-league war of the mid-'90s. While Murdoch was recruiting players to join News Ltd.'s rebel competition known as the Super League, Packer was trying to keep them loyal to the 90-year-old Australian Rugby League. (The parties eventually compromised.) In 2001, while Packer and Murdoch were executives in their fathers' companies, they jointly invested in One.Tel, a deal that cost both companies a total of about $500 million when the cut-price mobile-phone company collapsed. Packer encouraged Murdoch's involvement...
...over. They really wanted to keep hearing from me and they wanted me to be competitive. They were clearly voting with their hopes that this race would go on and I would continue to fight another day, so I really believe that for me in New Hampshire and on Super Tuesday and again yesterday - despite being outspent rather considerably in the media, in the mail and on the ground all the other ways that people judge your viability - I had the people on my side and that became clearer and clearer to me every day that went...
...Neither campaign releases its internal tallies of superdelegates, but since Super Tuesday, Obama has been cutting into Clinton's once formidable lead. The latest estimate by CNN suggests her edge is now only 238 to 199. "When you look at the numbers, this is a fistfight," says a Clinton strategist. "It is going to be a much more rugged fight, because her lifeline is these uncommitted delegates, and they can be shaky sometimes." Obama's team continues to push the case that the supers ought to follow the lead of the pledged delegates for the sake of party unity...
Huckabee's electoral successes were significant, considering his underdog operation. He vanquished Romney in Iowa and had a surprisingly respectable showing in New Hampshire. And on Super Tuesday, he showed the real power of his upstart candidacy, winning three states that Romney had hoped to capture. But it was not enough to overcome the mortal blow he suffered in South Carolina, where he narrowly lost the evangelical-rich state to McCain, who had the help of Fred Thompson splitting the conservative base. Nevertheless, he fought on, campaigning hard in Virginia, Wisconsin and Texas. The delegate math, and entreaties from various...
...Clinton supporters gathered last Sunday to plan a campaign that wasn't supposed to happen. "We cannot take anything, any area, any voter for granted," the city's newly elected mayor, Michael Nutter, told the crowd of perhaps 150. The race, he said, will be like this year's Super Bowl, in which the previously undefeated New England Patriots unexpectedly fell to the underdog New York Giants. And he means for the Pennsylvania's Clinton campaign to be the Giants. "We have our work cut out for us," he said. "But we have a real candidate who is a real...