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...Money Trail to Better Roads...
MARY BROWNBACK, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback, on the couple's plans to spend five days at their family home in Colorado. Brownback is the only candidate taking substantial time off from the campaign trail this summer...
...once again, the big questions that trail Obama everywhere are at work in the Cuba offering: is he taking on many of the established rules about presidential campaigns, and as a result, is doomed to come up short? Or can he expand the party with his embrace of change on so many fronts that those conventions are overturned...
...terrorism, says Jerome Hauer, Giuliani's emergency-management chief from 1996 to 2000. Giuliani was certainly more aware of the subject than most mayors, which made sense, given the city's panoply of targets. But he was not a student of Islamic extremism, as he claims on the campaign trail, Hauer says. (Giuliani and Hauer had a falling-out during the election to replace Giuliani after 9/11, both sides confirm, after Hauer endorsed a Democrat, arguing in part that the city would be safer under his choice.) "We never talked about Islamic terrorism," Hauer says. "We talked about chemical terrorism...
...Room for ImprovementOn the campaign trail, Giuliani's foreign policy comments have sometimes come off more confident than competent. In New Hampshire this spring, according to the New York Times, Giuliani said it was unclear whether Iran or North Korea was further along on building a nuclear bomb. (North Korea tested a nuclear device in October 2006. Iran has not done so.) Then, in his speech at the Maryland synagogue in July, Giuliani mocked Democratic candidate Barack Obama for claiming that North Korea was the nation's No. 1 enemy. "North Korea is an enemy. North Korea is dangerous...