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• McCain's last chance, or a chance to shine?
The answer to the first question, given his history, has to be yes. McCain is like that trick birthday candle: you keep blowing it out but it keeps springing back to life. I think I know the reason why this is so. There is something about what McCain ...
• Comedians leave voters with great impression
Yet clearly, throughout history, whenever an individual stepped into the presidential arena, he or she could be reasonably sure that somewhere another individual was copying them for comic effect.  Comedian Vaughn Meader made an entire career in the ...
• Iraq pressured on future of U.S. troops
... the Iraqi government to approve the security deal," Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff at the Iranian armed forces, said in a statement. "Undoubtedly, the Iraqi leaders are careful of any mischief in this regard and won't allow Iraqi history ...
• Divers reach ship that sank off Mass. in 1898
BOSTON - Five Massachusetts men became the first divers to reach the wreck of a 19th-century steamship that sank in one of the most destructive storms in New England history, and say they saw an array of artifacts like dishes and mugs but no human ...
• RocknRolla’ will run you over
The “RocknRolla” experience is akin to watching those “Drunk History” clips on YouTube, where inebriated people try to explain the Louisiana Purchase despite the fact that they can barely complete a sentence. You try to keep up with it ...