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...former TV presenter Maxine McKew to challenge the P.M. in his electorate of Bennelong in suburban Sydney. Did anyone really believe Labor's new prima ballerina would be wasted as a strategic operative in Rudd's huddle? The gregarious McKew will be a hit with voters, especially those who swing between Labor and the Greens. Perhaps those dwelling in cement-rendered Putney mansions will opt for the well-heeled woman from Mosman instead of the man from Kirribilli who invites Dick Cheney over for a beer. Every now and then during the campaign, Howard will wonder if the best thing...
...menace, with a throng of brisk walkers. Shoppers here have money but not a lot of time. Howard is a security blanket for the striving class. People feel that he is not only sympathetic to their ends, he is prepared to support the means as well. Life for swing voters and migrants in Bennelong is the quest for a larger home or to build a business; the after-school coaching regime that primes primary-school kids for entrance exams for nearby selective high schools and then university; the duty of making kids practice their musical instruments or enrolling them...
...TIME poll, Giuliani now leads his closest rival for the Republican nomination, Senator John McCain of Arizona, by 14 points (38% to 24%) among registered Republicans and those who are leaning toward the G.O.P. In January, a TIME poll showed McCain ahead by 4 points - a startling swing of 18 points. (For the entire results of the poll, go to www.srbi.com/time_poll.html.)...
...Burbank, Calif. As a jazz-obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later she wrote a famous, widely hailed response to a Down Beat magazine article that had detailed the inferiority of the fairer sex. Her commentary cemented her reputation as an influential advocate...
...Harry is facing many of the same attentions. In 2004 a photographer accused the younger Windsor of taking a swing at him as the prince left a nightclub. That youthful vim and vigor will be directed against a more dangerous enemy in the months ahead. But if the experience of his uncle is anything to go by, the skepticism of the media could prove harder to vanquish...