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Whatever his accomplishments on Vietnam issues, they had not given Kerry much of a record to parade before voters looking for reasons to re-elect him. "It's hard to say what John Kerry really cares about, other than the Vietnam stuff," says a Capitol Hill Democrat. That opened him to a fierce challenge in 1996 from the popular Republican William Weld, who had been elected Governor with 71% of the vote in a historically Democratic state. Weld's attacks on Kerry provide the playbook for the G.O.P. opposition-research elves, who even now are busy rummaging through every speech...
...Bush team lampooned Dukakis in a now famous ad in which he drove a tank while wearing an outsize military helmet. This time Republicans will take pains to honor Kerry's Vietnam heroism but will single out the times he voted to cut or freeze defense-and-intelligence spending--while conveniently ignoring the instances in which he voted to increase both. "Howard Dean has said that America's military will not always be the world's strongest. Senator Kerry's voting record would make Governor Dean's vision a reality," says Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman. But the Bush...
...bird flu that is spreading with alarming speed through Asia's poultry farms--killing thousands of chickens in 10 countries and forcing the slaughter of millions more--has so far infected a relatively small number of humans. Fewer than a dozen people in Vietnam and Thailand have caught the flu, all by direct exposure to infected chickens, and there is no evidence yet of the disease spreading from one person to another. But when humans do catch it, it is extremely deadly; at least eight people have already died, most of them children like Kaptan. And the great fear...
Hong Kong's 1997 experience alerted the world to the dangers of bird flu and offered a lesson on how to control it: kill sick chickens, and do it as fast as possible. That lesson obviously didn't sink in. Vietnam, the third country to acknowledge the presence of bird flu (after South Korea and Japan) in December, had outbreaks as far back as July. Birds started dropping dead in Thailand in early November, but the government insisted until last week that the chickens merely had a bacterial ailment. Heavily populated Indonesia has been hard hit but refused to cull...
...pugnacity in defense of his liberal instincts is obviously genuine. After eight years of careful Clintonian positioning, it's refreshing. Compared with Kerry's packaged, tested, hollow rants against "special interests," Dean's straight talk is invigorating. He isn't haunted, as Kerry is, by the specter of Vietnam. Even the famous Iowa scream had more authenticity and fire than Kerry's labored recitation "Bring it on." Unlike Kerry, Dean has held a serious executive office--balancing budgets, reforming health care, innovating on civil rights. Kerry's undistinguished, flip-floppy Senate record is far less impressive...