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...South Carolina Republicans have yet to hear McCain's rebel yell. Their primary comes just 18 days after New Hampshire's, but last week's TIME/CNN poll of likely Republican primary voters shows that 62% of them favor Bush, vs. 15% for McCain. Because South Carolina is the second important primary test, the Arizonan badly needs a victory there to start a brush fire capable of consuming Bush's considerable advantage in money, endorsements and organization in future states. "My campaign will rise or fall depending on what happens in South Carolina," McCain told TIME...
With the stakes so high, such low numbers are clearly a disappointment to a campaign that feels as if it has the momentum, but the McCain operation argues that it has time to catch up. The hustle that has taken McCain so far in the Granite State hasn't yet been fully effective in South Carolina, where 33% of G.O.P. voters don't know enough about McCain to have either a good or a bad opinion of him, according to the TIME/CNN poll. To fix that, the McCain videotaped biography has been mailed to party activists, and the TV-commercial...
TICK TEST Months before ticks are out full force, researchers have announced a new blood test that can detect Lyme disease as early as one week after a tick bite. That's a lot better than the current four to six weeks. The new test (not yet widely available, alas) detects antibodies to Lyme bacteria before they build up in the blood. That means patients can get on antibiotics sooner. Another benefit: the test can distinguish between past infections, which may not require medication, and new ones, which...
...with Sondheim's less nourishing material and served up thematically as an odd sort of cocktail party. This Broadway revise finds the party device strengthened, but still forced, and the selection of songs improved. The new cast, led by Carol Burnett with great warmth and good humor, is creamy. Yet this remains a chilly pudding of a show that leaves one admiring Sondheim's artistry and the performers' panache, but still hungry...
...Samantha Morton, as Emmet's "mute orphan half-wit" of a girlfriend, is the sweet revelation. Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness. She hardly nods or shakes her head in response to a question, yet always conveys the meaning and feeling. In an age of actors' tics and rantings, such austere clarity is worth cherishing. The interpretive magic that Emmet Ray achieves with six strings, Morton conjures with none...