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...people remember Tim Russert was once the Democratic Lee Atwater - the smartest, toughest, most instinctive political aide around. In 1984, when Gary Hart was floundering in a bid for the presidency, he famously said, "Get me a Russert," and Tim became a byword for a savvy political adviser who understood both the electorate and the media. Some people are born with a gene for politics. Tim was one of them...
...McCain, it should be noted, was for years an immigration moderate who, coming from Arizona, understood that the U.S. must do something about the 13 million illegal immigrants already inside the border. He was by far his party's strongest and longest backer of Bush's approach to immigration until, under pressure in a crowded G.O.P. presidential primary race, he joined the fence-'em-out-first crowd...
...cents a gallon. It was only in the depressing wake of Cameroon's loss to Egypt that the full impact of the gas price sank in. "The timing of the fuel prices was very deliberate," says Adam Poumie, who runs a local soccer academy. Even then, few readily understood that the government had chosen to increase prices during the tournament. "It took days for people to make the connection," he says...
...suddenly in the firing line. Molina, known for being the more aggressive of the two, says his plume is no more barbed than before, but that the worsening political climate has changed the context of his work. "What has changed is how my role as a cartoonist is understood today, especially from the government's viewpoint," the long-haired cartoonist said. "Whatever I do is automatically called oligarchic, counterrevolutionary, or an instrument of the empire...
...really sad," said Goncharov, who was born in Kazakhstan and studied mathematics at Moscow State University. "Then I decided I have to start a new company." Earlier that year he had visited London and Paris, and he recognized in the sidewalk creperies a model for selling Russian blini. "I understood this was one of the great ideas," he says...