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Whenever longtime Democrats gather to note how the chemistry and calculus of the 2008 campaign seem to favor their party this year, one or another will always add some version of the following: "Yeah, but we could screw this up before it's over."

January 15, 2008: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney professed his love for his native Michigan, and its Republican voters returned the feeling on Tuesday, giving him his first notable win of the primary season.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Golden Globes, the ceremony known for getting Hollywood's awards season off to a rollicking start, will be reduced to a news conference Sunday by the writers strike and will likely draw picket lines and lack star power. Despite[...]

Mark your calendars: Nicole Kidman may be due in July. When asked by a reporter at Australia’s Herald Sun when the actress is due, Kidman’s mother Janelle hinted it may be around the star’s 41st birthday.

President Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office, but undercut that optimism with harsh criticism of Hamas militants who control part of the land that would form an eventual independent Palestine. [...]

NPR: A New Hampshire Shakeup

NPR: Long Night, New Winners in New Hampshire

Al Gore savaged the US government’s “obstructing” attitude and urged delegates at the UN conference on climate change to ignore Washington if necessary to pursue the “moral imperative” of a new global regime.



“My country is principally responsible[...]

NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens turned out be Exhibit A in the long-awaited Mitchell report, an All-Star roster of players linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark -- if not an asterisk -- next to some of baseball's[...]