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My trips often become contests between myself and my guidebooks: Can I do them one better, finding more inside information, local color, novel tastes, and great prices than the experts?
The NYT reports that the "spirited contests" between candidates isn't enough to spark much enthusiasm for the old-fashioned exercise in democracy: though presidential hopefuls have stumped tirelessly throughout the state (save John McCain, who is skipping Iowa to concentrate on next week's primary in New Hampshire), only one-ninth of registered voters are expected to turn out Monday night to stand up and nominate their candidates.
The new Indian Miss World, Diana Hayden, in London on a "tour of glory," was "not the only Indian woman this year to stun planet Earth," it said, for India had also provided first runners-up at the Miss International and Miss Asia-Pacific contests.
Though nobody contests the president's assertion that he was kept in the dark, critics speculate that the atmosphere at the White House might have discouraged NSC staffers from informing their superiors.
And he pointed out that indisputably conservative candidates had won contests, such as the Senate races in Illinois and Kentucky.