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CAPITAL SOURCES
Up From Searchlight
Tom Watson 5/12/2008 12:00:00 AM
You know you're reading a different sort of political memoir when the wise person who first predicts greatness for the protagonist isn't a parent or a teacher but rather the local brothel owner. Yet it was the "whoremonger," as he's called in the book, who caught the young Harry Reid stealing some empty bottles from a local casino in hopes of cashing them in for loose change—and encouraged Reid to aim higher. "Pinky," the brothel owner warned, addressing Reid by his childhood nickname, "you should never steal anything from anybody. I didn't get you in trouble because I think you could amount to something. Don't you do stuff like that."
PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY
The Quaker Vote
4/21/2008 12:00:00 AM
The British colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, a Quaker, in 1681 as a safe haven for the Society of Friends—at the time a persecuted sect. And though Quakers currently number less than 1 percent of the Keystone State's population, they hope to have an impact far beyond their numbers in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Taking Liberties in Philadelphia
Brooks Jackson 4/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
Obama said, "I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins." Actually, he did. He said last year, "I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest" because it had become "a substitute for ... true patriotism" during the run-up to the Iraq war.
ENTERTAINMENT
Spring Movie Guide
4/4/2008 12:00:00 AM
Some of the best films to come along in the last few years have been documentaries. This spring's crop, which features films from Martin Scorsese, Errol Morris and Morgan Spurlock, features music (the Stones), investigative journalism (Abu Ghraib) and humor (about Osama bin Laden). Documentaries often have more drama than a fiction film and more laughs than your average wacky comedy, so don't let the word "documentary" scare you away.
POLITICS
Obama or Clinton: Which Candidate Can Best Take On McCain?

Twenty-eight years later, the old guard said that Jack Kennedy could not be elected because he was too Catholic and too young. Harry Truman said JFK was unelectable because, to defeat Richard Nixon, we needed "someone with greater experience." The 43-year-old Kennedy replied: "The world is changing. The old ways will not do." He was right—and America agreed.
CAMPAIGN 2008
The World According to John McCain
Michael Hirsh
"We need to listen," John McCain was saying, "to the views … of our democratic allies." Then, though the words weren't in the script, the Arizona senator repeated himself, as if in self-admonishment: "We need to listen." A lot of meaning was packed into that twice-said line, which was a key theme of McCain's first major foreign-policy speech since becoming the GOP's nominee-apparent. McCain was telling America, and the whole world: if I'm elected there will be, at long last, a return to what Jefferson called "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind." There will be no more ill-justified lurches into war, no more unilateralism, no more George W. Bush. Above all, McCain seemed to be saying that while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tear each other to pieces, I'm going to be the wise and welcoming statesman patching up America's global relations even before I get to the Oval Office. Not surprisingly, after the speech last week at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, McCain's campaign could not talk enough about international cooperation—what McCain had called a "new compact." "He has such a deep relationship with so many Europeans and those in other regions, including Asia and the Middle East," said one adviser, Rich Williamson, who added that McCain has kept up his global profile by "going each year to the Munich Security Conference."