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• Politics, Palin good for ‘Saturday Night Live’
NEW YORK - The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers. "SNL" averaged a 7.4 household rating/18 ...
• Politics scuttles plan to put diplomats in Iran
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki acknowledged Thursday that his nation is closely monitoring the U.S. election, anticipating major changes from whoever occupies the White House next. WASHINGTON - The Bush administration shelved plans to set ...
• A wide and varied career
Ahtisaari has had a broad career in politics and peacemaking. A primary school teacher who joined Finland's Foreign Ministry in 1965, he spent 20 years abroad, first as ambassador to Tanzania and then to the United Nations in New York. In 1994 ...
• Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling'
It was not clear whether Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican and patriarch of Alaska politics for generations, would take the stand in his own defense. He has languished in the federal courtroom as a Democratic opponent back home mounts a ...
• Space millionaire confident ahead of liftoff
He has trained for almost a year with the Russians." His son's training, mostly carried out at a space center near Moscow, were overshadowed by a sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian relations over Moscow's war with Georgia but Garriott said politics ...