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...rules: Registration for Tuesday's primary was closed weeks ago. Anyone who failed to register won't be able to vote - limiting the last-minute enthusiasm any campaign can whip up. On the other hand, registered voters may participate in any primary they choose. Democrats can vote Repulbican, Republicans can vote for Democrats and Independents may vote for either party. Until the votes are counted, no one can say what impact independents and party-switchers might have...
...fields, land of cathedrals"; Canada: "True patriot love in all thy sons command"). Admittedly countries like Norway and India do better than most with the same elements, but they had Nobel laureates (Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Rabindranath Tagore respectively) writing their lyrics. And if some nations have tended to whip up enthusiasm with a ribald reference or two (the now decertified second verse of the German national anthem can read like a gleeful celebration of sex and drunkenness), others rely on bombs bursting in air and other martial images for their oomph. France's La Marseillaise may be the most stirring...
...were 25 again, handed a modern racquet and given six months to practice with it and whip yourself into shape, could you excel in the current era? Is there anything about the demands of modern tennis that you couldn't have coped with? These hypotheticals can come from a hundred different directions. But I finished my career in the seniors playing with a larger-headed racquet - it was wood and graphite. And I went back about 10 years! It was, "Hey, I can serve, I can volley." I had a bigger surface to play with and could put more spin...
Fearing that radical Islamist leaders would use their Friday prayers to whip up anti-government fervor, the usually lethargic regime moved up Gibbons' trial, originally scheduled for Saturday, to Thursday. For the most part, the strategy worked: the Muslim day of prayer witnessed only one demonstration, itself relatively small and easily dispersed...
...could be difficult to hold in 2008 if one of the most polarizing figures in politics is at the top of the ticket. "We have a lot of districts that are 50-49, where if the wind blows too hard, it's going to switch," says Missouri House Democratic whip Connie Johnson, a John Edwards supporter. "Many tell me that Hillary would be a lightning rod in their districts." Union officials say similar concerns have influenced their decisions regarding candidate endorsements. That helps explain why one of the largest, the Service Employees International Union, made the unusual move of allowing...