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...first honeymoon, managing his first (unsuccessful) political campaign and shooting more than 6,000 photographs--so far. This September Butler will release both a documentary and a book, John Kerry: A Portrait (Bulfinch Press). He is not an objective outsider, but his images provide a rare combination of chronological sweep and intimacy. TIME picked the following photographs from Butler's portfolio...
...sense, this is not surprising. Iraq has been more difficult and more bloody than anyone in the Administration led the American people to expect. The revelation of abuses of Iraqi prisoners displayed an ugliness to the war that shook even those who supported it. Yet in the grand sweep of history, it is rare for an issue of foreign policy to dominate a presidential campaign. American elections tend to be fought on matters of domestic policy - the economy, stupid - and candidates have generally acceded to the old adage that politics stops at the water's edge. At least as regards...
...Crimson rebounded to sweep its Ivy season for the second season in a row before bowing out of the NCAA tournament in the first round with a loss to Ohio State...
Arms locked out in front of me, I sweep my .357 semiautomatic pistol back and forth across the panicked passengers. My heart is thumping wildly, my breathing too rapid. Fighting the tunnel vision that comes from fear, I try to remember to scan the plane for threats. Just seconds earlier, I had heard the first bloodcurdling yell--"They're stabbing people back here...
...last week. Some of the information released by the commission had already been reported--or at least hinted at--in books and memoirs published since the attacks, but its extensive review of classified materials--including unprecedented access to interrogations of high-level al-Qaeda detainees--gives its findings greater sweep and credibility. So what new details have we learned? The most eye-opening nuggets can be divided into three main categories...