Misc.
maff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1333228,00.html
When Nasa scientists needed to create breathable atmospheres for space
exploration, they turned to houseplants. Alys Fowler reports on how
their research can help us purify our homes
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Your carpets, plastic shopping bags, gas cookers, photocopiers, even
the tissue you blow your nose on are pouring into the air a cocktail
of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). According to
research by the US Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air can be
up to 10 times more polluted than outdoor air, and our increasingly
sedentary life means we spend up to 90% of our time indoors. But
before you spend the rest of the afternoon looking into expensive air
filters, go buy some houseplants.
Bill Wolverton, a former Nasa scientist and author of Eco-friendly
Houseplants, has spent the past 30 years researching the link between
houseplants and a healthy indoor environment. In the 1960s, when
manned moon bases were planned, Nasa scientists were set the task of
creating closed life-support facilities (sky labs) for outer space.
The problem with sky labs was that they quickly built up hazardous
levels of air pollution. What they needed to do was create a little
bit of home. The earth produces and sustains clean air through the
living process of plants. So they bought some houseplants and got to
work.
Alys Fowler
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Alys%20Fowler%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Alys+Fowler%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Alys+Fowler%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Alys%20Fowler&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Nasa
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Nasa&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Nasa&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Nasa&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
Bill Wolverton
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bill+Wolverton%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bill+Wolverton%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Bill%20Wolverton&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Bill%20Wolverton%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
Sunshine satirist
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332707,00.html
From an early career as an investigative journalist in Miami Carl
Hiaasen began writing novels lampooning the rape of Florida by
developers. When not fighting environmental degradation, political
intransigence and bureaucracy, he tries to play the guitar. Now, as a
columnist, he is braced for a showdown over next month's US election
Hadley Freeman
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Carl Hiaasen has spent the past two months in the eye of the storm,
the stance for which he is best known. As the unofficial voice of
Florida, Hiaasen, renowned for his satirical novels and newspaper
columns, has written frequently about the hurricanes that regularly
batter his beloved home state. In particular, he focuses his angry
gaze on local government "shoddiness", and corrupt building inspectors
and developers. In his 1993 novel Stormy Weather, the inspectors
sacrifice animals in the hope of escaping prison, while tourists get
out their video cameras when they see hurricane victims dying in the
street.
Carl Hiaasen
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Carl%20Hiaasen%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Carl+Hiaasen%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Carl+Hiaasen%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Carl%20Hiaasen&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
A tropical Versailles
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332693,00.html
In 1807 the entire, ill-assorted Portuguese court fled to Rio and
stayed for 13 years. John Ryle applauds Patrick Wilcken's Empire
Adrift, a brilliant account of a bizarre yet momentous event
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Empire Adrift
by Patrick Wilcken
320pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99
In his novel The Stone Raft (1986), the Portuguese Nobel laureate José
Saramago imagines the entire Iberian peninsula breaking away from
Europe and drifting across the Atlantic towards the tropics.
Saramago's allegory of detachment reflects Portugal's role as the
earliest of Europe's seaborne empires and nostalgia for the wonder
years of the 16th century, when this tiny ear of land (as an earlier
Portuguese writer referred to it) established a colonial presence in
India, China, Africa and the Americas, a time that saw the beginning
of Europe's long and violent romance with the peoples of the south.
Patrick Wilcken
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Patrick+Wilcken%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Patrick+Wilcken%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Patrick%20Wilcken&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Patrick%20Wilcken%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
The age of anxiety
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332840,00.html
American academic Richard Sennett, who has been teaching in London for
five years, returns to New York and takes the cultural and political
temperature
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
It was no surprise that two people in Fanelli's Bar and Grill were
reading Philip Roth's new novel, The Plot Against America. Fanelli's
is the left epicentre of Soho, a manufacturing district in lower
Manhattan that became home to artists and galleries in the 1970s and
now is filled with Euro-shoppers. Tourists avoid Fanelli's - grimy,
badly lit, air-conditioned down almost to absolute zero - leaving in
peace the elderly union organisers, greying sculptors and the odd
younger family feeding enormous Italian meatballs to children in
prams.
Richard Sennett
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Richard%20Sennett%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Richard+Sennett%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Richard+Sennett%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Richard%20Sennett&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Kyoto treaty to be binding after Russian ratification
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=575219
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
23 October 2004
Environmentalists hailed Russia as the world's ecological saviour
yesterday after the Russian parliament made good on President Vladimir
Putin's promise to endorse the Kyoto climate change pact. Yesterday's
vote will see the UN treaty take effect early next year.
The world's industrialised countries (with the exception of America,
the largest polluter) will have to cut their collective emissions of
six greenhouse gases to 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels in eight years
or face stiff penalties and global humiliation.
Kyoto treaty
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Kyoto%20treaty%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kyoto+treaty%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kyoto+treaty%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Kyoto%20treaty&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love, passion and a melancholy man
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=575215
By Nicholas Caistor
23 October 2004
It is rare for a publisher to rush forward publication of a novel to
try to pre-empt pirate editions. But this week, Norma publishers in
Colombia have been forced to bring out the latest book by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez after illegal vendors had apparently sold more than
13,000 cheap copies on the streets of his home country of Colombia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
http://news.google.com/news?q=Gabriel%20Garcia%20Marquez&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gabriel+Garcia+Marquez&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gabriel+Garcia+Marquez&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
Gabriel García Márquez
http://news.google.com/news?q=Gabriel%20Garc%C3%ADa%20M%C3%A1rquez&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn
Big G.O.P. Bid to Challenge Voters at Polls in Key State
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/politics/campaign/23vote.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MICHAEL MOSS
Party officials in Ohio plan to place thousands of recruits at polling
places on Nov. 2 to challenge voters' qualifications.
Ohio
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410070322.3a52b2ed%40posting.google.com
vote votes voter voters voting
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+vote+OR+votes+OR+voter+OR+voters+OR+voting&sa=N&tab=gn
An Undissolved Alliance
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/national/23beliefs.html
By PETER STEINFELS
Religion, politics and the good - or harm - that may result from the
2004 campaign.
Alexis de Tocqueville
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Alexis%20de%20Tocqueville%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
Officials Fear Iraq's Lure for Muslims in Europe
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/international/europe/23france.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By CRAIG S. SMITH and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Officials fear that for a new generation of disaffected European
Muslims, Iraq has become the crux of a new holy war.
It's Too Late to Change The Minds of Some Voters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55598-2004Oct22?language=printer
Record Numbers Use Early or Absentee Ballots
By Jo Becker and Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 23, 2004; Page A01
Over the next 10 days, President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry will
spend millions of dollars on a blizzard of last-minute ads. The
candidates will dash from state to state, trying to squeeze in one
more rally, a few thousand more handshakes. But for a growing number
of people, the effort will be wasted: They have already voted.
Democrats Aim to Organize the Union Vote
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55603-2004Oct22?language=printer
Labor Leaders Predict Record Turnout as They Rally Members for Kerry
in Battleground States
By Vanessa Williams, Page A08
BETHELHEM, Pa. -- When union members give him grief about Democrats
being soft on the Second Amendment, Bill Dorward, an organizer for the
United Steelworkers of America, fires back: "If you lose your job, you
can't eat your gun."
Ohio GOP Challenges 35,000 Voters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55472-2004Oct22.html
Page A09
The Ohio Republican Party challenged the eligibility of 35,000 newly
registered voters yesterday, an action that party officials said was
unprecedented but necessary to prevent election fraud in a state where
polls show President Bush and John F. Kerry in a statistical tie.
Breasts, bottoms and so forth
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332694,00.html
Desmond Morris rightly admires the beauty of the female hand in The
Naked Woman, says Catherine Bennett. But has he never seen a bunion?
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
by Desmond Morris
400pp, Cape, £17.99
I wonder how many specimens Desmond Morris inspected before deciding
that "every woman has a beautiful body", the statement which launches
this book. Not enough, anyway, or he would surely have come across at
least one that had gone wonky or started falling apart. He says our
bodies are beautiful because they are "the brilliant end-point of
millions of years of evolution". But you could say that about a slug.
Desmond Morris
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Desmond%20Morris%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Desmond+Morris%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Desmond+Morris%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Desmond%20Morris&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
The society of swine
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332695,00.html
Lyall Watson's The Whole Hog and Fergus Henderson's Nose To Tail
Eating are enough to get Ian Sansom reaching for the pork scratchings
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
by Lyall Watson
288pp, Profile, £16.99
Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking
by Fergus Henderson
256pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99
You wait for ages and then along come two great, eccentric books both
at the same time: one about a man and his love of pigs, and the other
about a man and his love of pigs. The only difference is that Lyall
Watson, author of The Whole Hog, is a naturalist, so obviously he
spends his time watching animals and communing with them, while Fergus
Henderson, author of Nose to Tail Eating, is a chef, so he cooks them.
Lyall Watson
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Lyall%20Watson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Lyall+Watson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Lyall+Watson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Lyall%20Watson&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Fergus Henderson
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Fergus%20Henderson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Fergus+Henderson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Fergus+Henderson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Fergus%20Henderson&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
The bad girl of Rome
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332697,00.html
Kathryn Hughes appreciates Sarah Bradford's reappraisal of the
infamous Lucrezia Borgia
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
by Sarah Bradford
368pp, Penguin, £25
It says something about the reputation of the Borgia family that when,
one hot day in 1503, two of them went down with violent nausea,
everyone immediately assumed that they had somehow managed to poison
one another by mistake. In fact, on this occasion it looks as though
Pope Alexander VI and his son Cesare may simply have been the victim
of some bad seafood or a nasty bout of malaria, but the point was
that, as far as the talking, writing, worrying classes of Renaissance
Italy were concerned, the Borgias were a byword for the dark arts of
realpolitik.
Lucrezia Borgia
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Lucrezia%20Borgia%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Lucrezia+Borgia%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Lucrezia+Borgia%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Lucrezia%20Borgia&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Not just a pretty face
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1332696,00.html
Eric Ives revisits the life of Henry VIII's most influential queen
with The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. But do we learn anything new?
Sarah Gristwood
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy
by Eric Ives
480pp, Blackwell, £25
Last year, a bookseller from whom I tried to buy Eric Ives's great
biography of Anne Boleyn told me that Blackwell would be reissuing it
shortly. He was wrong - well, nearly. Eighteen years after Ives's
first Anne Boleyn comes a new one. Same author, same subject, same
publisher, different book. Sort of, anyway.
Anne Boleyn
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Anne%20Boleyn%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Anne+Boleyn%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Anne+Boleyn%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Anne%20Boleyn&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Henry VIII
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Henry%20VIII%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Henry+VIII%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Henry+VIII%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Henry%20VIII&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
maff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1335339,00.html
Julian Borger in Washington
Monday October 25, 2004
The Guardian
George Bush and John Kerry today enter the final week of a
presidential race that is as deadlocked now as it was six months ago.
With the country polarised and only a relative handful of voters still
undecided, the campaigns have three final tasks: focus on a few
pivotal states, mobilise their supporters, and get ready to challenge
the outcome.
Julian Borger
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0311031142.59afc11a%40posting.google.com
How to Make New Enemies
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/opinion/25brzezinski.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
Neither presidential candidate is offering a plan to deal with the
central challenge of our time that is playing out in Iraq.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
http://news.google.com/news?q=Zbigniew%20Brzezinski&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Zbigniew+Brzezinski&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Zbigniew+Brzezinski&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
The Battle in Pennsylvania Isn't Just for President
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/campaign/25house.html
By CARL HULSE
The fight for three House seats in Pennsylvania, which is central to
the presidential campaign, is crucial to determining control of
Congress.
Pennsylvania
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410080138.2fb0a848%40posting.google.com
Gore and Kerry Unite in Search for Black Votes
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/campaign/25blacks.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JIM DWYER and JODI WILGOREN
As polls suggest gains for President Bush among black voters,
Democrats are trying to solidify their bloc.
African Americans
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410241207.4f3f9990%40posting.google.com
Al Gore
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410200227.277a1edb%40posting.google.com
Still a Puzzle for the Undecided, a Pivotal Few Among Voters
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/campaign/25swing.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JIM DWYER
While the undecideds are a small part of the electorate, they could
determine the outcome of the election because the races are so tight
in the swing states.
Undecided Undecideds
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20Undecided%20OR%20Undecideds&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Undecided+OR+Undecideds&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Undecided+OR+Undecideds&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
A Military for Tomorrow, Shaped by Yesterday
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/nyregion/13profile.html?ex=1098849600&en=703be174b174ca5b&ei=5070
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
Prof. Meena Bose, who teaches social sciences at West Point, gives
cadets a demanding, nonpartisan education.
Meena Bose
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Meena%20Bose%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Meena+Bose%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Meena+Bose%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Meena%20Bose&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
West Point
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22West%20Point%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22West+Point%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22West+Point%22&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=West%20Point&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Voters to Decide on Charter Schools
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/national/25charter.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By SAM DILLON
With 3,000 publicly financed, privately managed charter schools
operating in 40 states, the subject has become one of the most
contentious issues in education.
Charter school OR schools
http://news.google.com/news?q=Charter%20school%20OR%20schools&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Charter+school+OR+schools&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Charter+school+OR+schools&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
Kerry's Latest Attacks on Bush Borrow a Page From Scripture
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/campaign/25trail.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and DAVID E. SANGER
Senator John Kerry accused President Bush of trying to scare America,
and said that his own Catholicism moved him to help others but not to
"write every doctrine into law."
Top U.S. Contracting Official Calls for an Inquiry in the Halliburton
Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/25halliburton.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By ERIK ECKHOLM
The top official for the Army Corps of Engineers charged that the Army
granted contracts to Halliburton without following rules designed to
ensure competition.
An Adviser With License to Irritate the President
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/campaign/25letter.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Karen Hughes, a former most-powerful-woman-at-the-White House, is
making one last campaign fly-around this fall with her beloved boss,
George W. Bush.
Karen Hughes
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Karen%20Hughes%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Karen+Hughes%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Karen+Hughes%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Karen%20Hughes&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Once an Afterthought, Booming Nevada Now Glimmers Under the Campaign
Spotlight
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/campaign/25nevada.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: October 25, 2004
HENDERSON, Nev., Oct. 22 - It is said that Nevada, the nation's haven
for hustlers and dreamers, is like America, only more so.
And like the rest of America this year, Nevada appears to be split in
the presidential race. America's playground has turned into a
battleground.
Nevada
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410140201.7fb9ca3b%40posting.google.com
Ardent Faith Squares Off Against Earnest Reflection
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/weekinreview/24cohe.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By ROGER COHEN
Published: October 24, 2004
MINNEAPOLIS - THE other day, in southern Oregon, George W. Bush
greeted the crowd by saying it was great to be in a place "with more
boots than suits." It was a typical line from a president who likes
words of one syllable. Mr. Bush, child of wealth, campaigns as regular
guy and anti-establishment dude.
Officially, at Least, Vatican Is Staying Above Election Fray
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/politics/campaign/24vatican.html
By IAN FISHER
Published: October 24, 2004
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 22 - While many American Catholics oppose Senator
John Kerry because he supports abortion rights, church officials and
observers here say that if the people who run the Vatican could vote,
they would be as divided as Americans are - and might even tilt toward
Mr. Kerry.
EBay Merchants Trust Their Eyes, and the Bubble Wrap
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/business/yourmoney/24ebay.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By KATE MURPHY
An estimated half-million people make a full- or part-time living by
auctioning everything from macramé to Maseratis on the Internet.
EBay
http://news.google.com/news?q=EBay&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=EBay&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=EBay&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=EBay&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Counting the Hidden Costs of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/business/yourmoney/24view.html
By ANNA BERNASEK
The economic cost of the Iraq war may be larger than what has actually
been spent directly on the war.
Iraq cost OR costs
http://news.google.com/news?q=Iraq%20cost%20OR%20costs&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Iraq+cost+OR+costs&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Iraq+cost+OR+costs&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
Tiny Ideas Coming of Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/weekinreview/24fede.html
By BARNABY J. FEDER
Nanotechnology is confronting the U.S. with a familiar problem -
assessing claims of innovation that do not match up neatly with the
way patent examiners are trained to categorize them.
nano nanotech nanotechnology
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+nano+OR+nanotech+OR+nanotechnology&sa=N&tab=gn
Nano*
http://search.eurekalert.org/e3/query.html?col=ev3rel&qc=ev3rel&qt=Nano*&x=19&y=3
Family Ties and Entanglements of Caste
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/nyregion/25caste.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JOSEPH BERGER
While the caste system persists to some degree among immigrants from
India, its vestiges often seem more a matter of sentiment than
cultural imperative.
Caste
http://news.google.com/news?q=Caste&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Caste&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Caste&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Caste&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
'Nightingales': Nurse's Aides
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/books/review/24SEYMOUR.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MIRANDA SEYMOUR
Gillian Gill's convincing portrait of Florence Nightingale offers
fascinating insights into the family that she relied on and wanted to
escape.
Florence Nightingale
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Florence%20Nightingale%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Florence+Nightingale%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
'The Roads to Modernity': Freedom Philosophers
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/books/review/24MCLEMEE.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By SCOTT MCLEMEE
Published: October 24, 2004
IN 1995, William Kristol published a manifesto-like essay called ''The
Politics of Liberty, the Sociology of Virtue'' -- reprinted, the
following year, as the final chapter of ''The Essential
Neoconservative Reader.'' It was a heady time for the American right.
There was the defeat of the Soviet Union, of course, and the
containment (until further notice) of Saddam Hussein -- not to mention
the '94 midterm elections, a k a the Gingrich revolution. Drawing up
his ideological balance sheet, Kristol resisted the distractions of
triumph. For the moment of victory seemed to present neoconservatives
with an especially urgent and demanding task.
THE ROADS TO MODERNITY
The British, French, and American Enlightenments.
By Gertrude Himmelfarb.
284 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.
William Kristol
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22William%20Kristol%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22William+Kristol%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22William+Kristol%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=William%20Kristol&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Gertrude Himmelfarb
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Gertrude%20Himmelfarb%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Gertrude+Himmelfarb%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Gertrude+Himmelfarb%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
'The People Themselves': Judicial Populism
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/books/review/24TRIBEL.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By LAURENCE H. TRIBE
WHENEVER a handful of life-tenured and unelected Supreme Court
justices overrides a political majority, such an act of judicial
review is bound to generate sparks. Whether ''liberal'' or
''conservative,'' the court's critics typically argue that the
justices either got it wrong (as in: ''affirmative action forgets two
wrongs don't make a right'') or overstepped their authority (as in:
''states can decide for themselves how to treat same-sex
relationships'').
THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES
Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review.
By Larry D. Kramer.
363 pp. Oxford University Press. $29.95.
Supreme Court
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=+%22Supreme+Court%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=+%22Supreme+Court%22&sa=N&tab=nw
'Extreme Measures': Eminent Victorian, Alas
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/books/review/24TERESIL.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By DICK TERESI
Published: October 24, 2004
SLITHERIN' BILL'S face appeared just above my cup of latte at the
local coffeehouse. Bill undulates along the ground, kissing it and
picking up litter, and often appears at latte height because he
prefers to walk on his knees. Homeless, but the son of a prominent
scientist, Bill likes technical matters. The topic of the day was
eugenics. He wanted to combine the genes of Tom Brokaw, Steve Jobs,
Warren Beatty, Cal Ripken Jr. and Jennifer Aniston. ''That's a lot of
sperm for one egg,'' I said. ''Don't worry,'' he said. ''We can find
perfectly good non-celebrity eggs on the street. It's the men who are
the problem.''
EXTREME MEASURES
The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton.
By Martin Brookes.
Illustrated. 298 pp. Bloomsbury. $24.95.
Francis Galton
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0409180237.65532923%40posting.google.com
Dick Teresi
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Dick+Teresi%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Dick%20Teresi%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn
'Broken': Not Your Father's F.B.I.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/books/review/24BURROUG.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By BRYAN BURROUGH
Published: October 24, 2004
Political viewpoints inevitably color people's take on the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, but just about everyone agrees something is
wrong with it. This is nothing new. The F.B.I. has been America's
punching bag for 30 years, ever since the first stories of its 1960's
excesses began appearing in the wake of J. Edgar Hoover's death in
1972. Back then, F.B.I. agents were caricatured as right-wing stooges
seeking to shore up the crumbling bulwarks of a corrupt government.
While that stereotype lingers in the left's lazier corners, it is
rapidly being overtaken by the F.B.I. agent's new, equally corrosive
image: the earnest bumbler, the blinkered desk-slug unable to imagine,
much less stop, 9/11. Store shelves sag under the weight of books
excoriating the bureau's performance.
BROKEN
The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI.
By Richard Gid Powers.
Illustrated. 515 pp. Free Press. $30.
F.B.I.
http://news.google.com/news?q=F.B.I.&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=F.B.I.&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=F.B.I.&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=F.B.I.&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
The Specter of '94
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/magazine/24WWLN.html
By JAMES TRAUB
Whoever wins the presidency, the House will continue to be led by the
fiercely partisan heirs of Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0312070353.275d7ca9%40posting.google.com
Bombs
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/magazine/24QUESTIONS.html
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
The Middle East expert and former C.I.A. analyst apologizes for
getting Iraq wrong - and warns of nuclear crises to come.
Kenneth Pollack
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Kenneth+Pollack%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Kenneth+Pollack%22&sa=N&tab=nw
Con Flicks
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/magazine/24PHENOM.html
By KATHRYN SCHULZ
The rise of the right-wing film festival.
Tim Chey
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tim+Chey%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tim+Chey%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Tim%20Chey&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Tim%20Chey%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
Kathryn Schulz
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kathryn+Schulz%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kathryn+Schulz%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Kathryn%20Schulz&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Kathryn%20Schulz%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
What Makes an Equation Beautiful
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/weekinreview/24chan.html
By KENNETH CHANG
Readers of Physics World magazine recently were asked an interesting
question: Which equations are the greatest?
Kenneth Chang
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Kenneth+Chang%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Kenneth+Chang%22&sa=N&tab=nw
Illinois Democrat Wins Kenyan Hearts, in a Landslide
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/international/africa/25obama.html
By MARC LACEY
The people of Nyang'oma, Kenya, are dreaming of good fortune for their
remote village should Barack Obama be elevated to high office.
Barack Obama
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0407261344.1274e82f%40posting.google.com
Kenya Kenyan Kenyans
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20Kenya%20OR%20Kenyan%20OR%20Kenyans&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
Illinois
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Illinois&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Illinois&sa=N&tab=nw
Zambia Apologizes for Founder's '97 Arrest
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/international/africa/24zambia.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Zambia's government publicly apologized Saturday to its founding
father, Kenneth Kaunda, for arresting and jailing him on trumped-up
charges in 1997.
Zambia Zambian Zambians
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+Zambia+OR+Zambian+OR+Zambians&sa=N&tab=gn
Spain Is Seeking to Integrate Growing Muslim Population
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/international/europe/24spain.html
By MARLISE SIMONS
Spain's government created a foundation to help "minority religions"
integrate into society, a remarkable step for a nation forged by
religious wars against Muslim rulers.
Don't Do It, Justices
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56446-2004Oct23.html
By Garrett Epps, Page B01
In 1953, Justice Robert Jackson wrote of the Supreme Court: "We are
not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only
because we are final." Americans don't believe the court is
infallible, but they do respect the finality of its decisions. If the
court were to lose that respect, its very authority could dissipate,
damaging our constitutional order.
When Fear Is A Joint Venture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56449-2004Oct23.html
By Corey Robin, Page B01
Since 9/11, many on the left have accused the Bush administration of
manipulating the fear of terrorism for political gain. Democrats
denounce Karl Rove for drawing from a slush fund of popular anxiety to
bankroll the president's reelection. Liberals decry the USA Patriot
Act, arguing that Attorney General John Ashcroft has exploited
widespread feelings of vulnerability to reverse decades of progress in
the realm of civil liberties. Progressives generally agree that the
White House has tried to turn national security into a mute button,
muffling criticism with charges of insufficient patriotism and
warnings about demoralizing the troops.
maff
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/campaign/27voters.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JAMES DAO
Many newly registered voters with uncertain allegiances are the focus
of an intense tug of war in closely contested states.
Where to Catch a Rising Political Star? Try Illinois
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/campaign/27illinois.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MONICA DAVEY
Barack Obama has had a season of remarkable fortune and is now often
treated as though he is already the next senator from Illinois.
In Rural Tour, Bush Asks Democrats for Their Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/campaign/27bush.html
By DAVID E. SANGER
President Bush took the last bus tour of his campaign on Tuesday
through rural stretches of Wisconsin, urging Democrats to split with
their party.
Drive for Global Markets Strains Brazil's Infrastructure
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/business/worldbusiness/27infrastructure.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By TODD BENSON
Every year, as the soybean harvest begins, Brazilians are given a
stark reminder of the infrastructure obstacles their country must
overcome if it is to establish itself as a major trader in the global
marketplace.
Brazil
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410201327.2d456341%40posting.google.com
Buzzing the Web on a Meme Machine
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/arts/26meme.html
By SARAH BOXER
The World Wide Web is the perfect Petri dish for memes, infectious
ideas or any other things that spread by imitation from person to
person.
Meme Memes Memetics
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20Meme%20OR%20Memes%20OR%20Memetics&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Meme+OR+Memes+OR+Memetics&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Meme+OR+Memes+OR+Memetics&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Meme%20OR%20Memes%20OR%20Memetics&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=dg
Expect Bush v. Kerry, the Chadless Sequel
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/campaign/27legal.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: October 27, 2004
In trying to fix problems that arose in the 2000 presidential
election, Congress may have created an impediment to a quick
resolution in 2004 and set the stage for major election lawsuits.
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 allows voters whose names cannot be
found on local rolls to cast provisional ballots, with election
officials making a decision later about whether the vote should count.
Election lawyers now say that those ballots could determine the
outcome in a handful of states where the presidential race is expected
to be extremely close.
Judge Rules Against 10,000 Floridians Barred From Voting
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/campaign/27felon.html
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: October 27, 2004
MIAMI, Oct. 26 - A federal district judge here
dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that was filed on behalf of more than
10,000 new voters whose registration forms had been rejected as
incomplete.
The judge, James Lawrence King, said the labor unions that brought the
case had no standing because they had not proved that any of their
members were affected. Judge King also said several other plaintiffs,
people who had turned in incomplete registration forms, could not
blame their local elections supervisors, who were named as defendants.
Bush Aide Calls Criticism of Patriot Act Uninformed
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/politics/27patriot.html
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: October 27, 2004
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - A senior Bush administration
official defended the Patriot Act on Tuesday as a "smart, ordinary and
constitutional" tool in fighting terrorism and rejected attacks on it
as rash and misinformed.
Patriot Act
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Patriot+Act%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Patriot+Act%22&sa=N&tab=nw
Hopefuls' Preferences for Court Spring to Forefront
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A547-2004Oct26?language=printer
Usually Low-Key Issue Gets Attention as Rehnquist's Illness Becomes
Public
By Charles Lane, Page A13
It is axiomatic of presidential politics that while many people are
concerned about the future of the Supreme Court, the issue mainly
influences narrow groups of voters at either end of the political
spectrum, and then only by intensifying preferences, Democratic or
Republican, they already have.
Rehnquist
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0403210346.2e308db%40posting.google.com
The comments by James B. Comey Jr., the deputy attorney general,
coming in a speech before the American Bar Association on the third
anniversary of the passage of the act, offered a preview of what is
likely to be a fierce fight in Congress next year over its future.
Students Decry Registration Problems
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A451-2004Oct26.html
Democrats Allege 'Scare Tactics' to Suppress Young People's Poll
Turnout
By Jonathan Finer, Page A15
CONCORD, N.H., Oct. 26 -- Ryan Smith, a senior at
Keene State College, thought it would be more satisfying to vote in an
electoral battleground than in Massachusetts, the home state he shares
with Democratic nominee John F. Kerry.
Legal Battles Over Ballots Put Election Rules in Flux
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A548-2004Oct26.html
By Jo Becker and Thomas B. Edsall, Page A14
Iowa Republicans charged yesterday that Democrats are trying to rig
the presidential election there by allowing voters to cast ballots
even if they vote in the wrong precincts, while in Ohio Democrats sued
to try to stop the GOP there from challenging the eligibility of tens
of thousands of voters.
maff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1337432,00.html
John Kerry seems reluctant to advertise the fact he has a cousin from
France - home of those cheese-eating surrender monkeys. But when Brice
Lalonde, himself an enterprising politician, went to the US he didn't
expect his relatives there to ask him to go into hiding
Amelia Gentleman
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
The villagers of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer are peculiarly obsessed by the
American presidential elections. In the Bar de la Mairie at lunchtime,
there's a sophisticated dissection of the latest televised debate,
which several people have stayed up until four in the morning to
watch. Like most people in Europe, the bar's occupants are rooting for
John Kerry, but here the support for the Democratic candidate is
fervent. "It's looking good," one woman says, fresh off the golf
course. "I wouldn't be too confident," another regular responds,
frowning into his wine glass. "Everything depends on the swing
states."
Amelia Gentleman
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0408290059.6f5b5cac%40posting.google.com
Brice Lalonde
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Brice%20Lalonde%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brice+Lalonde%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Brice+Lalonde%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Brice%20Lalonde&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Thoroughly modern Moma
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1337428,00.html
In the 1930s, Alfred Hamilton Barr began to collect cheap,
unfashionable artefacts for a new Manhattan collection. It went on to
became the most significant museum of the century. As the famous Moma
gallery prepares to reopen its doors, leading critic Robert Hughes
reflects on how one man introduced modern art to the world
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
Modern art, a thousand voices have assured us over several lifetimes,
means "invention", first and always. Yet the most dramatic and
socially consequential invention that flowed out of modernism, the one
that actually affected the most lives, not only in the country where
it started but across the western world, was neither an art movement
nor a single artist's output, nor any individual painting or
sculpture. It was a context, an institution - a museum: New York's
Museum of Modern Art, which next month moves back from its temporary
quarters across the river in Queens to its old locus classicus on West
53rd Street, Manhattan, radically redesigned for it by the Japanese
architect Yoshio Taniguchi.
Robert Hughes
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Robert%20Hughes%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Robert+Hughes%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Robert+Hughes%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Robert%20Hughes&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
All aboard with Satan's sailor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1337620,00.html
Catherine Bennett
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
What does a Satanist do? Although the question is obviously more
pressing when the Satanist in question occupies a neighbouring bunk,
the crew members of HMS Cumberland cannot be the only people curious
about the worshipping style favoured by Leading Hand Chris Cranmer,
the naval technician who has just been granted permission to practise
his faith on board a Royal Navy frigate.
Catherine Bennett
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0409090049.4b95b73a%40posting.google.com
Satan Satanism Satanist Satanists
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20Satan%20OR%20Satanism%20OR%20Satanist%20OR%20Satanists&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
Why Africa roots for Kerry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1337155,00.html
Africans don't know John Kerry, but if they could vote in the US
elections he would get a landslide, writes Rory Carroll
Wednesday October 27, 2004
If George Bush took a break from election campaigning to ponder Africa
he might feel aggrieved. After all that effort, all those bold
policies to tackle poverty and disease, Africans want him to lose next
week.
Rory Carroll
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0403220225.332ca676%40posting.google.com
Great expectations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1336948,00.html
France is likely to be disappointed by any Kerry administration,
writes Amelia Gentleman
Wednesday October 27, 2004
There's no question that if France was voting for the next US
president, John Kerry would be victorious. The Bush administration era
has been catastrophic for Franco-American relations, and France is
impatient for a new leader with a more multilateral approach to
foreign affairs.
The French distaste for the Bush administration is evident in all the
polls. A recent survey showed that Kerry would win as much as 82% of
the French vote, while George Bush would secure a mere 16%. Around 70%
of French people say that their opinion of America has deteriorated
over the past three years, 75% of the population say that they have a
poor opinion of Bush, and 77% say that they believe the US-led
campaign in Iraq was a mistake.
Explaining the 'Anglosphere'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/glennreynolds/story/0,15140,1337850,00.html
George Bush's coalition is bound by more than a common language,
writes US blogger Glenn Reynolds
Thursday October 28, 2004
Last week's column mentioned George Bush's "Anglosphere-heavy
coalition". I think it's worth taking a moment to note the importance
of the Anglosphere in today's world, and the deeper divisions it
reflects.
Glenn Reynolds
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410211249.28fac028%40posting.google.com
Making every vote count
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/electoralcollege/story/0,14253,1337931,00.html
Next week, Colorado's voters decide whether to scrap the
winner-takes-all electoral college system. It may spark a
transformation of US politics, writes Sarah Left
Sarah Left in Denver
Thursday October 28, 2004
Colorado has grown accustomed to an intense political spotlight over
the last month, with John Kerry and George Bush, their running mates,
their daughters, their wives and extended families all making stops
here to campaign in an unexpectedly close race.
Sarah Left
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410211245.617ebcf2%40posting.google.com
Colorado
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410140155.62ae03f3%40posting.google.com
Bush goes with gut feeling in the heartland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1337732,00.html
President skirts tricky questions on frenetic campaign trail
Oliver Burkeman in Dubuque, Iowa
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
If Karl Rove were nervous, he would never admit it. But as the
Republican cavalcade ploughed through rainswept rural Wisconsin and
Iowa this week, the shadowy chief architect of the Bush presidency
could barely have been more ebullient.
Oliver Burkeman
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0410020030.4c6c439%40posting.google.com
What matters to American voters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1337740,00.html
Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
With less than a week to go to polling day, most Americans appear to
agree on one thing: the war on terror may be the most heated issue of
the campaign, but the economy could be just as important in
determining the election result.
Julian Borger
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0311031142.59afc11a%40posting.google.com
Germany's Bild goes Republican
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1337588,00.html
Luke Harding in Berlin
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
There was unexpected solace yesterday for George Bush from an unlikely
source: Germany.
Bild, Europe's bestselling tabloid with 4m copies a day, yesterday
endorsed the president, who it said was far less "wobbly" than his
Democratic rival.
Luke Harding
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0405150127.22615e5%40posting.google.com
German Germans Germany Germanic
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20German%20OR%20Germans%20OR%20Germany%20OR%20Germanic&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
Money and machismo shape the complex art of separating a fool from his
vote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1337677,00.html
Howard Robinson
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
Buying early for Christmas or stuck for gift ideas for the person who
has everything? Log on to George W Bush's online store
(www.georgewbushstore.com) and check out the president's range of
branded golf balls, baseball caps and "urban look" clothing, featuring
the logos "W04" and "W The President". Alternatively, treat yourself
to a set of shot glasses or a seven-day pill case from
www.kerrygear.com.
Howard Robinson
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Howard%20Robinson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Howard+Robinson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Howard+Robinson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Howard%20Robinson&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Dozens of newspapers shift allegiance to Democrat camp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1337634,00.html
David Teather in New York
Thursday October 28, 2004
The Guardian
Four years ago the Chicago Sun-Times endorsed George Bush for
president. On Sunday, it became one of a growing number of American
newspapers to admit they had got it wrong.
David Teather
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0312060712.cd0482%40posting.google.com
One man battles Dubya armed with 'Fahrenheit 9/11' downloads
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=576751
By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor
28 October 2004
Marc Perkel is spending $2,000 (£1,100) in the hope of ensuring the
result of the United States presidential election. Not by buying
television ads ($2,000 wouldn't go very far) but by offering Michael
Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 as a free download from his site in the
hope that watching it will encourage people to vote against George
Bush.
Charles Arthur
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0403100258.5240b313%40posting.google.com
Michael Moore
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0311170244.27337e4e%40posting.google.com
Ugly, tasteless, terrifying and wild... Count me in
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=576704
He's been America's most unorthodox political commentator for more
than 30 years. But for Dr Hunter S Thompson the Bush presidency is
evil beyond belief - and judgement is nigh
28 October 2004
The genetically vicious nature of presidential campaigns in America is
too obvious to argue with, but some people call it fun, and I am one
of them. Election day - especially when it's a presidential election -
is always a wild and terrifying time for politics junkies, and I am
one of those, too. We look forward to major election days like sex
addicts look forward to orgies. We are slaves to them.
Hunter S Thompson
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Hunter%20S%20Thompson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hunter+S+Thompson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hunter+S+Thompson%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
Shocking and awesome, like yeah!
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=576702
Politics has always invited satire. But the outpouring that has marked
this campaign is without precedent. Andrew Gumbel feels the force
28 October 2004
Everyone wants to say something about this year's US presidential
election, even Matt Stone and Trey Parker, co-creators of the crudest,
rudest show on television, South Park. That must be why they have
temporarily abandoned the relative comfort of a hit television series
to produce a loving feature-length epic on the war on global
terrorism, all depicted with latex puppets suspended with visible
strings.
Andrew Gumbel
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0312160336.2b5c7467%40posting.google.com
PJ O'Rourke: You Ask The Questions
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=576699
Who do you think is winning in the battle of the candidates' wives?
And is Tony Blair George W Bush's puppet, poodle or fig leaf?
28 October 2004
The right-wing satirist PJ (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke, 57, was born the
son of a car salesman in Toledo, Ohio. He studied English at Miami
University, before moving to New York in 1973 to join the satirical
magazine National Lampoon. After leaving the Lampoon in 1981, he
became a freelance writer, working for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and
Playboy. In 1987, his collection of essays entitled Republican Party
Reptile became a worldwide bestseller, and since then he has written
10 books, including Give War a Chance, Eat the Rich and Holidays in
Hell. He lives in New Hampshire with his second wife and three young
children.
PJ O'Rourke
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22PJ%20O'Rourke%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&q=%22PJ+O%27Rourke%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22PJ+O%27Rourke%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=PJ%20O%20Rourke&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
The body politic
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=576700
How do you get young Americans to vote? By promising sexual ecstasy in
return. The lure of votergasm.org has led over 25,000 people to the
ballot box
By Jennifer Fried
28 October 2004
As the election draws nearer, the four co-founders of a web-based,
youth activist group gather in a flat in Manhattan for their weekly
meeting. Chairs are pulled into a circle, iPods and mobiles are set
aside. The attendants are well-groomed and academic-looking. Snacks
are going around. The host, a 23-year-old publicity assistant named
Julie Binder, sits barefoot on the floor, occasionally taking notes on
a laptop.
Jennifer Fried
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Jennifer%20Fried%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jennifer+Fried%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jennifer+Fried%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Jennifer%20Fried&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
After a year of playing hard to get, Arnie finally agrees to stump up
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=576752
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
28 October 2004
Arnold Schwarzenegger loves to keep people guessing. He did it when he
was weighing whether to run for governor of California last summer,
and he's been doing it again in response to Republican Party
entreaties to stump for George Bush.
After playing hard to get for the past year - California is, after
all, resolutely anti-Bush - he has at last agreed to make a single
appearance with the President in Ohio tomorrow.
Schwarzenegger
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0409010041.5d7c523e%40posting.google.com
White House of Horrors
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/opinion/28dowd.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
Determined to throw a good scare into the Arab world, the vice
president ended up scaring up the swarm of jihadist evil spirits he
had conjured.
Maureen Dowd
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0310120147.69861c80%40posting.google.com
Faith, Hope and Clarity
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/opinion/28wright.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By ROBERT WRIGHT
President Bush's beliefs say in the longest run, divinely guided
decisions will be vindicated, and any evidence to the contrary may be
a sign of God's continuing involvement.
Robert Wright
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0311300333.107f8628%40posting.google.com
Private Political Donations Can Carry a Business Price
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/politics/campaign/28donor.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By GLEN JUSTICE
Published: October 28, 2004
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - A. Jerrold Perenchio is the kind of financial
backer that Republicans and Democrats alike have sought out in this
year's presidential race. He can raise money and he can write checks,
and in both cases, the sums are huge.
Mr. Perenchio is chairman of Univision Communications Inc., the
largest Spanish-language media company in the country, and he controls
a personal fortune estimated at $2.7 billion. He outranks both Steven
Spielberg and Donald J. Trump on Forbes magazine's list of richest
Americans. President Bush himself visited Mr. Perenchio's home in Bel
Air, Calif., this year.
Jerrold Perenchio
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Jerrold%20Perenchio%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jerrold+Perenchio%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jerrold+Perenchio%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
Web Offers Hefty Voice to Critics of Mainstream Journalists
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/politics/campaign/28blog.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: October 28, 2004
Practicing cheap and dirty politics, playing fast and loose with the
facts and even lying: Accusations like these, and worse, have been
slung nonstop this year.
The accused in this case are not the candidates, but the mainstream
news media. And the accusers are an ever-growing army of Internet
writers, many of them partisans, who reach hundreds of thousands of
people a day.
Kerry Turns to Iowans to Save Him a 2nd Time
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/politics/campaign/28kerry.html
By JODI WILGOREN
The very state that in January catapulted John Kerry toward the
Democratic nomination has become the most difficult of those that
Democrats won in 2000 to defend.
Iowa
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410070306.3b478033%40posting.google.com
9/11 Families Group Rebukes Bush for Impasse on Overhaul
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/politics/28panel.html
By PHILIP SHENON
The principal advocacy group for victims' families blamed President
Bush and some House Republicans for failing to enact the 9/11 panel's
recommendations.
A Clouding of the Crystal Ball Draws the Candidates Back
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
Published: October 28, 2004
DETROIT, Oct. 27 - Two weeks ago, Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, a
Democrat, told a visitor that "unless something big happens," she did
not expect John Kerry to return to Michigan before Election Day.
R.W. Apple Jr.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0403030346.232e589b%40posting.google.com
Michigan
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410140152.641dcbb8%40posting.google.com
A List of Topics Aimed Squarely at the Middle Class
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/politics/campaign/28adbox.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: October 28, 2004
Senator John Kerry began running this spot in roughly 12 swing states
this week. It is to run until Tuesday.
Where Are the Economists?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/business/28scene.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JEFF MADRICK
In the push for greater regulation after the corporate scandals,
economists are notably absent.
Moving Ideas Off Campus
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/business/28sbiz.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By SHIRA BOSS-BICAK
The transfer of technological innovations from the campus to the
capitalist marketplace has been a financial windfall for many schools.
New Setback for Europe-Latin Trade Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/business/worldbusiness/28mercosur.html
By TODD BENSON
Just six months ago, the Europe and a South American trade bloc
appeared to be close to creating the world's biggest free trade area.
But now, the chances seem slim to none.
Plugging Into the Net, Through the Humble Wall Outlet
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/technology/circuits/28howw.html
By TOM McNICHOL
An emerging technology known as broadband over power lines may soon
provide a new channel for high-speed data into homes through ordinary
electrical outlets.
Decision 2004: Fear Fatigue vs. Sheer Fatigue
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/31rich.html?pagewanted=all&position=
After three years of nonstop thrills, Americans will just have to
decide on Nov. 2 whether there could be fates even worse than spending
the next four years being bored.
Hold Bush Accountable
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3933-2004Oct27.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A25
I do not write the headlines for my columns. Someone else does. But if
I were to write the headline for this one, it would be "Impeach George
Bush."
Richard Cohen
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0403181353.2a7ac830%40posting.google.com
Churches Key To Mich. Fight On Gay Marriage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3847-2004Oct27.html
Faithful Line Up on Both Sides of Issue
By Alan Cooperman and David S. Broder, Page A06
ROYAL OAK, Mich. -- Inside the National Shrine of the Little Flower, a
Knights of Columbus honor guard stood watch with swords drawn as
several hundred Roman Catholics prayed that Michigan voters will
"uphold the sanctity of marriage" Tuesday.
Schools' Doorbell Campaign Miffs GOP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3597-2004Oct27.html
By Tallying The Vote, Page A06
MILWAUKEE -- For at least six years, Milwaukee and Racine public
schools have participated in get-out-the-vote campaigns that send
dozens of middle and high school students to ring doorbells and make
phone calls that urge citizens to register and to vote. The students
concentrate on low-registration neighborhoods -- mostly in inner
cities.
Most Latinos Say Iraq War Was Wrong
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3696-2004Oct27.html
Survey of Voters Shows Economy, Jobs as Top Issues
By Richard Morin and Dan Balz, Page A08
An overwhelming majority of Latino voters believes the war in Iraq was
not worth fighting, and a significant minority believes Hispanics have
suffered a disproportionate share of the casualties, according to a
new survey of Latino voters by The Washington Post, Univision and the
Tomas Rivera Policy Institute.
Democrat Shows Surprising Strength in S.C. Senate Race
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3598-2004Oct27.html
By Helen Dewar and Ceci Connolly, Page A08
When Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) announced his retirement 14
months ago, the conventional wisdom was that Republicans -- already
strong in South Carolina and likely to add to their strength with
President Bush on the ballot -- would almost certainly pick up the
seat.
maff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1338666,00.html
John O'Farrell
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
It is the most exciting anthropological discovery for a century. Until
just 12,000 years ago, there was a species of little people walking
around who would have only come up to our waist. Finally they were
wiped out, possibly following encounters with the much larger Homo
sapiens who, it's feared, may have patronised them to death. Things
got off to a bad start after that first meeting and never improved.
John O'Farrell
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0402200325.6e262d06%40posting.google.com
A strong Europe - or Bush's feral US capitalism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1338591,00.html
The left can embrace the constitution: it enshrines the European
social model
Robin Cook
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
Today in Rome the prime ministers of 25 European nations gather to
sign up to a common constitution and to commit themselves to the same
standards of human rights and democratic values.
Robin Cook
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0407120124.3ed79de4%40posting.google.com
Music to their ears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1338665,00.html
Talk of sanctions against Israel helps the enemies of peace
Isaac Herzog
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
This week, Israel took the biggest step towards solving the Middle
East conflict for 30 years when the Knesset backed disengagement from
the Gaza Strip. Our parliament can rival any for partisan disputes. On
Tuesday, differences were put to one side.
An ailing peace process will now receive a new lease of life. I am an
Israeli Labour party member of the Knesset, and we have been fierce in
our opposition to the Likud government. But on this occasion, I wish
foreign commentators would recognise the enormity of the initiative.
Ariel Sharon's determination to withdraw from Gaza has alienated many
of his own Knesset members. He has defied a vote of his party's
membership. He has endured death threats from Palestinian and Jewish
extremists.
Isaac Herzog
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Isaac%20Herzog%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Isaac+Herzog%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Isaac+Herzog%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Isaac%20Herzog&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
China tries to cool its economy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1338600,00.html
Ashley Seager
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
China took the global markets by surprise yesterday as it raised
interest rates for the first time in nine years in an attempt to cool
its rampant economy.
The move - which raised the country's official deposit and lending
rates by 0.27 of a point to 5.53% - sent bonds, stocks and the US
dollar into turmoil as financial markets tried to digest the
implications for the world economy, of which China is rapidly becoming
an increasingly important part.
Seeds of change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1338580,00.html
I used to think there were no good Chinese men, until a brief
encounter at Paddington station
Xinran
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
Since my book The Good Women of China was published, I've been asked
many times why I haven't written a book about the good men of China.
I've always said I'm not qualified; my excuse is that only a man could
write such a book. But there is another reason - one I never tell
people, but which is always at the back of my mind. My own experiences
of China have left me with the feeling that there just aren't that
many good men, at least not by the standards of modern civilised
society.
And if it's a tie? Expect 'stark raving mad chaos'. For a month
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1338696,00.html
Julian Borger in Washington and Oliver Burkeman in New York
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
With four days to go to an election that every poll suggests is too
close to call, American political scientists fear a new quirk that
could threaten the country's embattled electoral system: a tie.
An exact draw is possible because the president is not chosen by
popular vote, but by 538 electors in the electoral college. The
electors are chosen by each state and there are many ways George Bush
and John Kerry could end up with 269 electors each. In fact, according
to a new computer analysis quoted in the Washington Post, there are 33
different permutations that could make that happen.
FBI investigates how Iraq contracts were given to Halliburton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338668,00.html
Michael Howard in Baghdad
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon broke the law in
awarding contracts in Iraq to Dick Cheney's former company
Halliburton.
100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have
died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by
coalition forces, according to the first reliable study of the death
toll from Iraqi and US public health experts.
Red Sox victory helps Kerry make his pitch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1338748,00.html
Home run omens cheer the Democrats
Suzanne Goldenberg in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
A lunar eclipse. A World Series victory after 86 years for the Boston
Red Sox. For the Democratic faithful, it was an unmistakable omen:
John Kerry, locked for weeks in a dead heat with George Bush, now had
the stars on his side.
Eminem song puts Bush in the dock
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1338775,00.html
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
Eminem has become the latest music star to weigh in on this year's
presidential election. In a video for his new single, Mosh, the singer
takes George Bush to task for raising taxes and waging the war in
Iraq.
Pope steps in for his friend Buttiglione
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,1338731,00.html
David Gow in Brussels
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
The Pope intervened yesterday in the EU's institutional impasse caused
by MEPs' opposition to his close friend and confidant Rocco
Buttiglione, an outspoken critic of gay and women's rights, as the new
justice commissioner.
French intellectuals assail fashionable author as 'hollow'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1338547,00.html
Amelia Gentleman in Paris
Friday October 29, 2004
The Guardian
Rich, intelligent and reasonably photogenic, it is not surprising that
France's most media-friendly philosopher is the target of the
occasional attack.
But the scale of the assault that is being mounted on Bernard-Henri
Lévy this autumn has shocked and delighted Paris's literary elite.
Absentee ballot forms go missing in Florida county
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=577139
By Elizabeth Davies
29 October 2004
Election officials were last night sending out absentee ballots to
voters in one of Florida's most keenly contested counties to replace
thousands that have gone missing in the run-up to Tuesday's poll.
Munitions Issue Dwarfs the Big Picture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7418-2004Oct28.html
By Bradley Graham and Thomas E. Ricks, Page A01
The 377 tons of Iraqi explosives whose reported disappearance has
dominated the past few days of presidential campaigning represent only
a tiny fraction of the vast quantities of other munitions unaccounted
for since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government 18 months ago.
GOP Challenging Voter Registrations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7422-2004Oct28.html
Civil Rights Groups Accuse Republicans Of Trying to Disenfranchise
Minorities
The Boss Makes a Pitch for Kerry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7421-2004Oct28.html
Springsteen Appearance at Wisconsin Rally Draws Crowd of 80,000
By Jim VandeHei, Page A05
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 28 -- Facing crowds flowing five blocks deep,
rocker Bruce Springsteen offered a passionate, and often poetic, pitch
Thursday for the election of John F. Kerry, a fellow guitar-playing
Democrat.
By Jo Becker, Page A05
Republicans yesterday continued to challenge the validity of tens of
thousands of voter registrations in Ohio and other key states in the
presidential election while a coalition of civil rights and labor
groups sued the GOP, claiming the Republican efforts were aimed at
removing eligible minority voters from the rolls.
La. Could Decide Party Control of Senate in December
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7537-2004Oct28.html
By Helen Dewar, Page A07
If the battle for control of the Senate is as close as some analysts
suggest, the outcome may not be known until Louisiana finishes voting,
more than a month after the polls have closed everywhere else.
'Band of Sisters' Conducts Campaign Against Cheney
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7964-2004Oct28.html
By Lyndsey Layton, Page A08
Brooke Campbell and four new friends have been scurrying around the
country this week, shadowing Vice President Cheney at his campaign
stops in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.
Palestinian Life, Love and 'Emancipation' Through a Personal Lens
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7878-2004Oct28.html
By Nora Boustany, Page A20
Arab filmmakers and intellectuals are increasingly turning to fiction
to help their societies clear away the fog of idealized longing and
romanticized revolution in order to deal more pragmatically with the
present. In his 4 1/2-hour film, "The Door to the Sun," Egyptian-born
director Yousry Nasrallah also uses a novel to retrace the melancholy
epic of Palestinian history.
Snow on the Trail
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7912-2004Oct28.html
By Al Kamen, Page A21
Keeping up with Treasury Secretary John W. "Battleground" Snow . . .
Snow, ridding us at long last of that annoying and silly tradition of
keeping the Treasury Department above the political fray, continues
his work in states seen as critical to President Bush on Election Day.
Sharp Increase in Early Voting Alters Campaign
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/politics/campaign/29early.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By RICK LYMAN and WILLIAM YARDLEY
The surge in early voting is affecting where candidates are sent and
money is spent in the final days of the campaign.
Many in Europe See U.S. Vote as a Lose-Lose Affair
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/international/europe/29berlin.html
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
Europeans believe that no matter who wins the U.S. election, the
consequences for American-European relations will be bad.
richardfalco
maff
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=577493
By Andrew Gumbel
30 October 2004
Depending whom you believe, Karl Rove is either a visionary
instrumental in the drive towards a permanent Republican revolution in
US politics, or an evil genius who has dragged campaigning into the
gutter and so compromised the foundations of American democracy.
Either way, it is clear that no mere campaign consultant has wielded
such power in more than a century. Nobody is more closely associated
with George W Bush's improbable rise to power - Rove's frequent
nickname, in fact, is "Bush's brain". And nobody will be able to take
more credit if the President succeeds in clawing his way to a second
term in the Oval Office.
In New Math, Candidates Shift the Variables for Victory
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/politics/campaign/30map.html
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
The two campaigns and their schedules in the final days of the
campaign point up the range of possibilities that have emerged for
each candidate to carve a path to victory.
This Time Around, the World Is Watching, Nervously
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/politics/campaign/30almanac.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
Nothing shakes up an old political reporter quite like living in
another country while the spellbinding drama of a presidential
election unfolds back home.
R.W. Apple Jr.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0403030346.232e589b%40posting.google.com
As the Race Tightens, Enthusiasm for a Ballot Proposal Wanes
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/politics/campaign/30colorado.html
By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: October 30, 2004
DENVER, Oct. 28 - Colorado Republicans were quick out of the gate this
fall in criticizing a ballot proposal that would scrap the
winner-take-all method of distributing the state's nine Electoral
College votes for president.
Lessons of 2000 Shape Strategy of Today
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/politics/campaign/30pundit.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: October 30, 2004
At this time four years ago, Vice President Al Gore was dashing madly
across the country, trying to blunt the challenge from Ralph Nader
while working to secure his base voters in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania and Florida. Gov. George W. Bush of Texas was trying to
explain the late disclosure of a 1976 arrest for drunken driving,
although campaigning at a more confident and leisurely pace, following
Karl Rove's bandwagon theory that voters fall in line behind a
candidate who acts like a winner.
Both Parties Pin Hopes on Florida Senate Race
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/politics/campaign/30senate.html
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: October 30, 2004
MIAMI, Oct. 29 - Mel Martinez was the dream candidate for Republican
strategists looking for someone to run for the United States Senate
from Florida this year.
Officials Say 2 Court Rulings Will Halt G.O.P. Challenges
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/politics/campaign/30ohio.html
By JAMES DAO
Published: October 30, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 29 - Rulings by two federal courts on Friday made
it virtually impossible for Ohio Republicans to continue their
challenges of 23,000 new voter registrations before Election Day,
state officials said.
Ohio
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410070322.3a52b2ed%40posting.google.com
Same-Sex Marriage Becomes Issue Late in Several Campaigns
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/politics/campaign/30gay.html
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: October 30, 2004
The debate over same-sex marriage is reverberating through a handful
of swing states and at least five Congressional races where campaign
advertisements are attacking Democratic candidates for supporting for
gay rights.
Jewish Leaders Assail Bush Ad Quoting Them
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Published: October 30, 2004
TRENTON, Oct. 29 - The leaders of two national Jewish organizations
have demanded that the New Jersey Republican State Committee stop
using their names in campaign fliers that urge Jewish voters to cast
their ballots for President Bush.
Voters Checking Out Other Sides' Sites
http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBits-Curious-Voters.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Voters leaning both to the right and the left are checking out the
other sides' sites, surprising researchers who expected to see
"selective exposure" among Internet users.
DNA as a Sex-Crime Solver: Good Tool, Not Whole Solution
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/nyregion/29dna.html
By SHAILA K. DEWAN
A race to pursue DNA-based indictments has made apparent that no
matter how sophisticated the science of DNA, a genetic profile is less
than half the battle.
'Washington Gone Crazy': Nativist Son
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/books/review/31GREENB.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By DAVID GREENBERG
Michael J. Ybarra's biography of Senator Patrick McCarran reveals the
Red scare's parliamentarian par excellence.
WASHINGTON GONE CRAZY
Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt.
By Michael J. Ybarra.
Illustrated. 854 pp. Steerforth Press. $35.
Pat McCarran
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Pat%20McCarran%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Pat+McCarran%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Pat+McCarran%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Pat%20McCarran&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
McCarthyism
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=McCarthyism&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=McCarthyism&sa=N&tab=nw
McCarthy Joseph OR Joe
http://news.google.com/news?q=McCarthy%20Joseph%20OR%20Joe&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=McCarthy+Joseph+OR+Joe&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=McCarthy+Joseph+OR+Joe&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
'John James Audubon': The Birdman of America
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/books/review/31ROSENL.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JONATHAN ROSEN
Richard Rhodes's biography of Audubon understands how the bird
enthusiast's avian paintings created a portrait of the country.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
The Making of an American.
By Richard Rhodes. 511 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30.
Audubon John OR James
http://news.google.com/news?q=Audubon%20John%20OR%20James&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Audubon+John+OR+James&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Audubon+John+OR+James&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
'How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)': All Their Fault
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/books/review/31SCHILLI.html
By LIESL SCHILLINGER
Published: October 31, 2004
LISTEN, I'm as open-minded as any liberal -- as all liberals. We have
to be that way: it says so in Webster's dictionary, where, among other
things, the word ''liberal'' describes someone who ''displays
tolerance of others' views.'' So I'm happy to let Ann Coulter talk.
She stands before me as I write this. Smug, boxy and impassive, she
wears one of her trademark microminis. I recall what my high school
English teacher back in Oklahoma used to say about essays -- they
should be ''like a miniskirt: long enough to cover the subject, short
enough to be interesting.'' Coulter's subject must be brief indeed.
HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL (IF YOU MUST)
The World According to Ann Coulter.
By Ann Coulter.
353 pp. Crown Forum. $26.95.
Ann Coulter
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0408161009.3fdba92c%40posting.google.com
Voters in 23 States Rush to Beat the Rush
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10559-2004Oct29?language=printer
By Dale Russakoff, Page A01
TAMPA, Oct. 29 -- They stand patiently in wilting heat for as long as
three hours. Occasionally, the busiest and the frailest peel off, but
the vast majority persevere, sharing sunblock, bottled water and an
unquenchable eagerness to vote -- the earlier the better.
Jeb Bush's Influence in Fla. Inspires Awe, Rage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html
By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Page A08
MIAMI, Oct. 29 -- President Bush, borrowing a bit of biblically styled
phrasing, calls Florida's governor "Brother Jeb." The brothers -- Jeb,
the younger one, and George W. -- have been everywhere in Florida
together the past few months. They have handed out bottled water in
hurricane-battered towns and roused crowds side-by-side at campaign
rallies.
Jeb Bush
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0409150055.1309af67%40posting.google.com