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That phrase brings back cold family memories of New Hampshire. In the 1992 primary, President Bush’s broken pledge not to raise taxes helped power Pat Buchanan to a close second, demonstrating Bush’s vulnerability. This year George W. Bush’s brother Jeb, the Florida governor, has handed out oranges in New Hampshire. The former president, however, has stayed away from the state–partly to avoid giving the impression that George W needs dad’s help....

Here are his vitals: Since his nomination, Peake doesn’t seem afraid to speak critically about the Veterans Administration, while still acknowledging the good work of its rank-and-file employees. As he said upon nomination: Among the questions senators asked today are requests for clarification over Peake’s involvement with QTC Management, Inc. QTC is a company holding contracts with the VA, and so Peake says he’s cutting all ties and deferring contract decisions to others in VA....

IPL has had a very rich history of showering fortunes on some of the best players in the modern cricketing history. However, players getting the highest bid have the downside of inviting immense scrutiny from this cricket frenzy country. In this article, we will track back to look at the most expensive buys from each IPL and how those players fared against the amount spent on them by their franchises....

Was the timing determined by Beijing? China has always been wary of Chan, who was appointed by the reformist former British governor Chris Patten. Her conflicts with her Beijing-appointed boss, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, were legendary in Hong Kong’s media. In September Beijing summoned and publicly rep-rimanded her for not showing enough support for Tung. Chan denied she was being forced out. “My decision,” she said, “is unrelated to my visit to Beijing....

The exposure triangle will control how light or dark your image is, and whether it’s in or out of focus. Therefore, it’s one of the most important concepts you need to learn. In this article, you’ll learn about the exposure triangle and each of its different components. You will also discover how you can control the triangle in your camera and get the best possible pictures. What Is the Exposure Triangle?...

Not that East Timor doesn’t have a lot to be happy about as the one-year anniversary of its independence approaches later this month. War and starvation are slowly becoming distant memories, nation-building has begun in earnest and the East Timorese–not their Portuguese, Japanese or Indonesian colonizers–are finally calling the shots. Just last month East Timor and Australia inked the final terms of their joint treaty, with 90 percent of the oil revenues headed to the tiny nation....

By February of this year, Gibb had suspected the singer might be her mother and got in touch with Mitchell’s agent. Since their reunion, mother and daughter (a former model who is now a computer student) have spent several joyful weeks together. “There’s a definite umbilical cord that was never cut,” Gibb told the Los Angeles Times. Mitchell found more family than she expected: a 4-year-old grandson, Marlin (Gibb is separated from his father)....

Once a top prospect in the Republican Party, Symington is on the verge of losing it all. First, the onetime land developer went broke. Then the Feds indicted him on 23 counts of fraud and extortion, charging that he lied to get loans for his construction projects. In two weeks Symington will go on trial in the federal courthouse a few blocks from his capitol office. But in case anyone thought this might be the end of Fife Symington, the intensely proud governor says that if he doesn’t go to jail, he’ll run for a third term next year....

There were major changes to the structure of the game, with the seasonal model being introduced to replace DLC that showed its trappings with Curse of Osiris and Warmind. Seasons are a great way for Destiny 2 to grow and explore new stories and approaches to gameplay while continuing the legacy of the first entry, especially accompanied by big yearly expansions such as The Witch Queen and Beyond Light. However, the game cannot grow forever due to technical limitations that are already showing, which poses a question as to what Bungie hopes to accomplish with decades of content....

The video from CBS2/KCAL9’s Sky9 news helicopter, which made the rounds on Twitter in the early hours of Wednesday morning, shows a man doing donuts in his car when he runs over fireworks. The fireworks catch onto the bottom of the car, then begin shooting sparks off into all directions as the car continues circling in the intersection, to the delight of the crowd gathered out on the streets....

“Six Feet Under” is a funny, warm, offbeat HBO drama made all the more delightful because it’s about a family of undertakers–hardly your standard TV clan. Each episode opens with a ghoulishly hilarious death. The Fisher family then tends to the survivors, once it gets over its own crises. In one episode, the Fishers hide the fact that a man who died in a dough mixer is still missing a foot because 16-year-old Claire Fisher (Lauren Ambrose) stole the appendage to get back at a boyfriend who bragged about how she sucked his toes....

On Oct. 6-8, the Pompidou Center, Paris’s pre-eminent museum of modern art, will host the Pocket Films Festival. Billing itself as the only event in the world to feature movies made exclusively with mobiles, it’s set to screen 80 films of widely ranging styles, themes and lengths. The medium’s possibilities are expanding all the time. Thanks to the onrush of miniaturization and the exponential growth of digital memories, cell-phone films are getting longer and evolving into a serious art form—or at least something with serious pretensions thereto....

Epic has shown no signs of slowing down when it comes to its crossovers, as its latest deal with Sony sees Fortnite incorporating more PlayStation icons. This time around, Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer from Uncharted have appeared on the island, and the two treasure hunters should not be the last Naughty Dog characters to have a cameo in Fortnite. There is plenty of potential for Joel and Ellie from The Last of Us to appear in Fortnite, and 2023 could be the perfect time to add them to the game....

Late last month a Pakistani Army major, captain and eight infantrymen, operating on U.S.-supplied intelligence, were killed in a Qaeda ambush near the Afghan border. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf continues to promise the risks are worth the rewards. But the rank and file are not so sure. Now, in mess halls and officer barracks throughout the country, soldiers are asking, “What’s in it for us?” Old grudges and new concerns may be giving rise to an anti-American feeling within the Pakistani officer corps, blunting the effectiveness of the U....

Under coach Unai Emery this season but, three years into his career in Ligue 1, the former Sao Paulo man has become a vital part of the French champions. And the stats prove it. READ MORE: We are all Chape | Brazil to meet Argentina | Neymar at 25 | Meet Barca target Vinicius This season, Lucas has taken until just February to hit a career-best 14 goals for PSG, surpassing his total of 13 for the entirety of last season....

Anyone who doubts that claim should tune in as Stewart, 37, and his crew hit the campaign trail over the next few weeks with Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2000” coverage. The big networks may be cutting back, but this news parody will send 94 staffers to Philadelphia for the GOP convention, ready to compete with “traditional” journalists. Then they’ll aim for Los Angeles and the Democrats. And they’ll have high-powered help: Bob Dole and former Labor secretary Robert Reich have both signed up to appear....

The site looks promising, but so do several others on pristine Whidbey Island. Agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) hack through the thorny brush with a machete, leading LaBarca to a mound here, a depression there. LaBarca can barely contain himself at a spot where the forest meets marshy tidal lands. “We’re, um, getting data we’ve seen before,” he says, looking up from his screen. Don Johnston, the NCIS’s lead agent in the Hunter case, punctures the earth with a five-foot metal probe....

However, some may not realize that there is another food staple in Pokemon: Pokemon themselves. A new trailer for New Pokemon Snap implies that Magikarp are eaten by other Pokemon. One scene shows a beached Magikarp plucked up by a Pidgeot, and another shows a Frillish dragging a paralyzed Magikarp deeper down in the ocean. While these events may be surprising to some, there is actually a long history of Pokemon as food through the franchise....