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    Romney Racing to Retool For November, Obama Team Readies Attacks

    Apr 11, 2012 12:56 PM EST

    ... Tampa Bay Times writes that the president will return to Florida at the end of the week to announce some trade initiatives. Rick Perlstein has a detailed profile in Rolling Stone of mega-donor and Gingrich backer Sheldon Adelson. Ruth Marcus outlines Romney's challenge with women voters. Crossroads Grassroots ...

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    Who's Spending More: Candidates or Super PACs?

    Feb 01, 2012 11:03 PM EST

    ... a monthly filing. Hopefully from here out, we will know a little more about the super PACs. But the nonprofits really are much more of a concern, and that's Crossroads Grassroots Policy, which is a nonprofit. And they don't have to say who their donors are at all ...

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    The Power of the Telenovela

    Jan 25, 2012 10:30 PM EST

    ... through Latin America and began melding the American product with Latin American storytelling. But unlike U.S. soap operas, which ran for decades, telenovelas have a contained story arc, ending after a few seasons. This makes them highly marketable and exportable, says Diana Rios, associate professor of communication sciences at ...

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    Christie Hangs Onto His Hat: What Happens to GOP Field?

    Oct 04, 2011 10:03 PM EST

    ... Perry has lost nearly half of his support over the past month after a couple of unsteady debate performances. He is now tied for second at 16 percent with Herman Cain, the former Godfather's Pizza chief executive. A clear majority of voters did agree on one thing, that President ...

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    Federal Spending Front and Center in Pa., Wash. Senate Races

    Oct 26, 2010 10:08 PM EST

    ... abortion well before the Roe vs. Wade decision. Murray is hitting on that type of issue. At the same time, however, Rossi is something of a prized recruit for the Senate Republican leadership. He believes, to borrow the phrase of Calvin Coolidge, that the business of America is business, that ...

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    Obama Keeps Focus on Economy in Speech to Congress

    Feb 25, 2009 03:15 AM EST

    ... avoid the possibility of escalating protectionism, and spur demand for American goods in markets across the globe. For the world depends on us to have a strong economy, just as our economy depends on the strength of the world's. As we stand at this crossroads of history, the eyes ...

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    Essay: What is Freedom?

    May 14, 2003 04:00 AM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: Here we are at the crossroads of democracy. No, not Baghdad, but Lancaster, California, U.S.A., a small, but fast-growing, city 70 miles north of Los Angeles, a city where families have come to raise their kids in sprawling subdivisions, and send them to public ...

  • Prominent poet Robert Bly, author of 'Iron John', dies at 94

    Prominent poet Robert Bly, author of 'Iron John', dies at 94

    Nov 22, 2021 11:32 PM EST

    ... s coming to terms with his relationship to his father, a taciturn Norwegian farmer. "That led to an examination of what it is to be a man," Smith said. "He saw American men at a crossroads. He was concerned that men were losing their inner lives, their feeling lives, their ...

  • WATCH: Harris meets with Ukraine's Zelenskyy as Russia makes nuclear warning

    WATCH: Harris meets with Ukraine's Zelenskyy as Russia makes nuclear warning

    Sep 26, 2024 10:51 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — With American support for Ukraine at a partisan crossroads, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday slammed suggestions that Kyiv should cede territory for the sake of peace with Moscow as “dangerous and unacceptable.” The Democratic presidential nominee spoke alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as she unleashed the veiled ...

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    State of Security

    Nov 30, 2004 05:00 AM EST

    ... Policy Institute. He was a special assistant to President Bush for homeland security. Frank Cilluffo, it seems as if Tom Ridge's departure today comes at a crossroads in kind of American intelligence policy. What would you say about that? FRANK CILLUFFO: Well, I think clearly we have to put ...