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...most talented orators in either party this cycle. "When he talks to a group or a roomful of people, he still seems to come across like he is talking to you," says Don Woods, a letter carrier from Cedar Rapids who attended a Huckabee event last Thursday. "I have yet to meet a friend or co-worker who hasn't come away thinking, 'I could live with this...
...Thursday night event in Cedar Rapids, sponsored by the Iowa Christian Alliance, Huckabee showed why he has made such dramatic inroads with religious voters. He spoke of "the crisis going on in this culture of ours." He described gay marriage as a threat to the "skeletal system" of our civilization. He compared abortion to the practice of slavery, and quoted liberally from the Bible. It is rhetoric he sparingly used before more mixed audiences or on the trail in New Hampshire, where voters tend to be more private about their religious views. "You try to always scratch where the itch...
...many Japanese eat the controversial seafood. And so, the Japan Fisheries Association is encouraging a whale consumption program and backing a Tokyo-based firm Geishoku Labo and the "Asian Lunch" trucks it sends to Tokyo's business districts. The truck serves whale boxed lunches on weekdays and, for the Thursday special, a special green or red keema curry with chunks of whale served with rice...
...time when audiences are turning away from broadcast TV to other forms of entertainment, why do New Year's broadcasts still draw decent crowds? There are fewer and fewer places for destination television. When Seinfeld was on NBC on Thursday nights, you had to go home and watch it. You couldn't get it anywhere else. Now Americans are watching on their iPods, their computers, their DVRs. You're not gonna record the ball drop and watch it later...
...Republicans in preference polls nationwide, new surveys showed he had slipped into a dead heat with, depending on the poll, Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney. Finally, late last night, Giuliani checked into a St. Louis hospital with symptoms of the flu. He is expected to be released sometime Thursday...