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...Anne Applebaum’s new book, ‘Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism’, is published next week by Penguin....
...On the Republican side, the last female vice-presidential candidate was Sarah Palin, whose presence on the ticket was believed to have hurt John McCain’s campaign....
...Finally, anyone puzzled by the conservative love affair with Putin’s Russia should read Anne Applebaum’s piece in the Atlantic on the false romance of Russia....
...Nate Silver predicted before the election that if Donald Trump won, it would be because of white American men without a college degree who had voted for Mr Obama over John McCain or Mitt Romney but would...
...This was true of John Kerry in 2004 and it was overwhelmingly so of Mr Obama in his race against John McCain in 2008. He raised $747.8m to Mr McCain’s $351.5m....
...After a brief failed early marriage, he wed Marlene Anne Heinemann, who died last year, in 1966....
...He has the virtue of not resembling Mr Romney, but he can also be less than doctrinaire, which already has the likes of Laura Ingraham and Anne Coulter carping....
...John McCain admitted he does not use e-mail and is only just learning how to get online. And Barack Obama?...
...“There haven’t been jobs here for 20 years, so the economy doesn’t change anything,” said Anne Marie Knott, a 42-year-old mother of five. “People in Scranton still put family values first.”...
...Next, Anne-Marie Slaughter (describing herself as Mr Krugman’s boss at Princeton) asked the eponymous Kos (Markos Moulitsas), Jane Mayer (author of a new book on civil liberties and terrorism) and Van Jones...
...The first big foreign policy debate of the presidential campaign has focused on Senator John McCain’s proposal for a League of Democracies....
...“The politics of coal in these states is straight out of the robber baron era,” says Mary Anne Hitt, executive director of Appalachian Voices, a conservation group....
...The fact that Mr McCain has championed the idea might tell us something about his broad-mindedness....
...Tom and Anne, her mother and father, were fellow teachers at the school to which I, a student, had been sent by Voluntary Service Overseas....
...Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton academic, is expected to be appointed head of policy planning at the state department – a job once held by George Kennan, architect of the policy of containment of the Soviet...
...Vicenova, a former agriculture minister and journalist who arrived in January, is the first female ambassador from one of the 27 member states since Anne Anderson of Ireland left town almost three years...
...Funding for programmes such as early childhood education has been slashed in part because Republican governor Tim Pawlenty – who, as this magazine goes to print, has risen to the top of John McCain’s list...
...He does not discuss any techniques or methods that may or may not be used in questioning,” said Lea Anne McBride....
...However, Lea Anne McBride, spokeswoman for the vice president, told the FT that no one in the administration had proposed a “waiver that would allow torture”....
...Senator John McCain’s essay on courage is particularly interesting - a ready-made stump speech for 2008?...
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