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The Freedom to Look Ludicrous
At political conventions, where every word and gesture have been scripted, reviewed and revised, the motley collection of red, white and blue tailcoats, Uncle Sam top hats and other forms of aesthetically displeasing get-ups are as necessary as the gavels, the speeches and the power brokers flinging...
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An All-Out Battle for Women's Votes Begins
In 1984, Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate shattered a glass ceiling as old as the republic, thrilled feminists and helped create a gender gap among voters that has aided Democrats ever since. That was 24 years before another woman, Sarah Palin, was named to a national...
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McCain Picks Alaska Governor; Palin First Woman on GOP Ticket
DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 29 -- Sen. John McCain confounded conventional wisdom Friday by announcing first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, a decision that guarantees that either an African American or a woman will ascend to the White House for the first time in history...
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A Tenacious Reformer's Swift Rise
She has been known, at times, as "Sarah Barracuda."
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November Ballots Include Abortion Issues
A ballot initiative on abortion in South Dakota this November could lead to a series of court challenges and ultimately to the Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, antiabortion activists say.
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With Pick, McCain Reclaims His Maverick Image
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 29 -- John McCain's advisers predicted weeks ago that the presumptive Republican nominee would use his national convention week to try to recapture his image as a maverick reformer and shake up the presidential race. He did just that Friday with his surprise choice of Alaska Gov....
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Democratic Candidates Begin Touring Rust Belt
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 29 -- Democratic running mates Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. embarked on a Rust Belt bus tour Friday that aimed to capitalize on a convention that appeared to ease party tensions and ended with Obama's historic and widely acclaimed acceptance speech before a record national...
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Palin Focus of Probe In Police Chief's Firing
Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is an ethics reformer under an ethics investigation that is plowing through private domestic matters.
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Obama Inspires Hope in Father's Homeland
KISUMU, Kenya, Aug. 29 -- The few people awake before sunrise here Friday all seemed to be at the Camel's Joint Hotel, a low-ceilinged 24-hour cafe with neon lights, an open-pit grill and two posters of Sen. Barack Obama smiling down on rows of white Formica tables.
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A Turbulent Youth Under a Strong Father's Shadow
One night in 1957, during his junior year at the U.S. Naval Academy, John Sidney McCain III found himself in trouble, an incident that destined him for yet another tense discussion with his frustrated father. While on liberty, he and a couple of classmates had gotten into an argument at a Washing...
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