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...Palin's post-convention bounce dissipates, an ongoing conservative revolt in Arizona has been gaining steam. It probably won't cost McCain the state. But 26 years after the Republican was sent to Congress from Arizona, the schism within the state GOP points to lingering doubts that the right wing - both inside and outside Arizona - has about McCain's motives, methods and temperament. And in an unusually brutal state primary season that ended Sept. 2, suspicion about the Republican nominee led the conservative grass roots to air accusations of persecution and dirty politics...
...were a consultant on The West Wing. Aside from ideology, which candidate would be most like Jed Bartlet? The great benefit of that old President Bartlet was pretty much every show was an arc about how he thinks, how he experiences his presidency, what he thinks he faces, what attitude he brings to crises that he faces. That was a President thinking aloud. We could use more of that...
...astonishing to see how the mainstream parties have resurrected the right wing in Austria," says Thomas Hofer, a political analyst and former editor at the newsmagazine Profil. "Just three years ago the right wing was nowhere. But the last government gave them new life. This was the largest and most dramatic protest vote [since the Second World...
...more winsome White House aspirant in 2008. There were moments on Friday night when, as a pasty and weary Sen. McCain ground out a response to one of Jim Lehrer’s probing questions, that Obama seemed to be filming a future episode of The West Wing in the background: smiling genuinely and looking with a true statesman’s curiosity at his rival. You half-expected the Democrat to start juggling chairs or audience members while the dollop of cottage cheese from Sedona stumbled through “Ahmadinejad...
...objects will have completely vacated the building by September of 2009 so that the actual construction can begin. However, this timetable is contingent upon a routine public approval process that the museum has yet to begin. It is estimated that the tearing down of old wings and construction of the new expansion will take three years, ending in 2012. After that, it will take at least another year to move back into the building and to complete commissioning of the new wings, which involves ensuring that the air quality is sufficient for the art collections to be reinstalled. The goal...