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/ 27 October 2004
Route 65 dips, rises and swings through the Ozark mountains, past rib shacks offering hickory hams and small stores emblazoned with the confederate flag. "The past is never dead," wrote Mississippi’s famous son, William Faulkner, of the south. "It’s not even past."
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/ 25 October 2004
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When it comes to fixing elections, the Bush administration has a way of making the lame walk. With little more than a week to go to the presidential election, efforts to obstruct and deny the vote, particularly to African-American and Latino voters, are intensifying. In the 1960s, police dogs and billy clubs kept African-Americans from the polls. Today’s methods are more refined.
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/ 23 October 2004
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Cleo Toris leads me on stage to the tune of ”I am a woman” and clasps my hand to her fake breast. ”They tell me you’re married,” she says. ”But are you curious?” ”Curious about what?” I ask. ”I’ll talk to you later,” said Cleo Toris (run the two names together quickly) to the laughter of the mainly gay and lesbian crowd at the Black Tie Affair in Springfield, Missouri.
Nuance gets its ‘but’ kicked
Bush, Kerry vie to be Mr ‘Regular Guy’
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/ 11 October 2004
If you’re interested in who’s going to be the next United States president then forget the precedents. If history is anything to go by, both John Kerry and George W Bush will win. No candidate who lost the popular vote but won the presidency has ever been re-elected. But then no president has failed to be re-elected during a major war. If Americans choose Bush, it will be from fear, a lack of choice — and a preference for power over safety.
The hour-long drive up route 93 from Boston to Derry in New Hampshire (population 34 021) is punctuated by banners calling on people to ”support the troops” and others saying ”bring the troops home”. It is also framed by a New England fall.
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/ 30 September 2004
What is most likely to swing the US election one way or the other? Bush and Kerry reckon it’s sex appeal. With six weeks to go before the presidential election, one of the best ways to find out how a woman is likely to vote is to check her ring finger. Gary Younge comments on two misguided campaigns to woo the single American woman.
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/ 10 September 2004
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the epoch-shaping onslaught on New York and Washington but a string of other al-Qaeda attacks since 1998 has left little mark on our consciousness. What has terrorism done to the lives of ordinary people from Casablanca to Karachi? Reporters asked nine people living in the shadow of the bombers.
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/ 6 September 2004
General Colin Powell is missing in action. At the Republican convention in 2000 he led from the front, opening a line up that could have been set up by Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow coalition. Of the three co-chairs in 2000 one was black and another Hispanic; national security adviser Condoleezza Rice kicked off prime-time coverage one night while Chaka Khan serenaded George Bush.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters calling for United States President George Bush to be removed descended on to the streets of Manhattan on Sunday, on the eve of the Republican party convention. But as the demonstrators marched, Republican delegates arrived in town hoping to open a significant lead over the Democratic challenger, John Kerry, for the first time this year.
Six weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, President George W Bush flew to New York to throw out the ceremonial first pitch in the World Series baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks. It seemed like the perfect location for this week’s Republican convention, but now the city that never sleeps is preparing a noisy reception for Bush.