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When Edward Kennedy bestowed his blessing on Barack Obama at a thunderous rally in Washington, he had only sweet words about Obama's chief rival for the Democratic nomination?at least when he mentioned Hillary Clinton by name. But it was hard to miss what the senior member of one of the U.S.'s most storied Democratic clans was really saying about the political style of another dynastic family. Obama, Kennedy declared, "has given America a different kind of campaign?a campaign not just about himself but about...
...heaven or hell. "The husbands fall into two extremes," says Keh Yu-ling, director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation which serves the new immigrants, "simple shy guys who dote on their wives, or men with no respect for women." Fan had a taste of both. Her husband was sweet, she said, until he lost his job and began abusing her. When he broke her rib, she divorced him. Fan is grateful, however, for her freedom and the custody of her daughter. Of her ex-husband, she says, "We do our part as wives and mothers, but when they...
...There will be cuts for the salary of checkpoint supervisors as well. "You are asking them to risk their lives and then cutting their salary down. It's not fair," says Brown, who regularly stops by his contractors' homes in the evening to sip small cups of sweet, hot Iraqi tea and learn about the neighborhood...
Something about South Carolina, perhaps the sweet tea, seems to change presidential candidates...
...That makes South Carolina a nice microcosm of the national Republican race for the White House, and it is the reason that all of the candidates are swilling the sweet tea in a final 48-hour quest to find a message that enough voters will swallow...