Efforts ongoing to free U.S. reporter
Saturday, January 21, 2006
AP's PAUL GARWOOD - - Buffalo News
| BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. negotiators were working around the clock to secure the release of hostage American journalist Jill Carroll as a deadline set by militants threatening to kill her passed Friday with no word on her fate.
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Medicare enters new era this week with Part D
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 HENRY L. DAVIS - - Buffalo News
| Ask anyone over 65 about the federal government's new prescription drug program for the elderly and disabled, and you'll likely receive a helpless-looking stare.
The biggest change in the history of Medicare begins this week, yet few of the people who may benefit understand it.
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Power play at the waterfront
Sunday, November 6, 2005 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| The Niagara Power Project churns out vast profits every day, and over the next half century, $1 billion more of that money is set to come home.
The power plant's neighbors could see that cash sprout into beautiful waterfront parks, revitalized wildlife habitats, and maybe even new industry.
In fact, that's exactly what's set to happen. In Niagara County.
Why not Buffalo?
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Young and hard to control
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 SANDRA TAN - - Buffalo News
| Kids these days.
They're getting more disrespectful, abusive, defiant and prone to tantrums. A few are even getting kicked out of school, getting pulled from the classroom by frustrated parents or being asked to cut back on their classroom hours until they shape up.
And they're only 4.
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Charters outperform Buffalo city schools
Sunday, October 30, 2005 PETER SIMON - - Buffalo News
| Buffalo's charter schools - often considered the great unknown in public education - decisively outperformed the city's traditional public schools on four key student assessment tests over the past four years.
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Bush's Mr. Fix-It in a bit of a fix
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Buffalo News
| It should surprise nobody that Vice President Cheney is at the center of another firestorm. He has his hands in just about everything at the White House. Now the administration's Mr. Fix-It faces a sticky political, if not legal, situation with the latest leak in the CIA leak investigation.
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Area health officials taking bird flu seriously
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 MARK SOMMER - - Buffalo News
| No one knows whether the bird flu will eventually be transmitted between humans.
But Western New York officials are planning mass immunizations if medicines become available. And local doctors could quarantine people in hospitals and homes to prevent the spread of the deadly flu.
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Roberts gives Bush an edge
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Buffalo News
| In nominating conservative John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice Monday, President Bush seized a historic opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court.
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Tag team triumphs on base
Sunday, August 28, 2005 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| A funeral director led the community effort to bring the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station back to life.
And in the nation's capital, the hard work fell to a senator who boosted Niagara by undermining the Arkansas city she once called home, a congresswoman who began her efforts by cajoling her well-placed cousin and a congressman who buttonholed everyone who mattered.
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U.N. tests reportedly clear Iran on uranium traces
Sunday, August 21, 2005
AP's DANICA KIRKA - - Buffalo News
| U.N. nuclear agency tests have concluded that traces of highly enriched uranium on centrifuge parts were from imported equipment - rather than from any enrichment activities by Iran, a senior Western diplomat said Saturday.
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Bomber's trail raises network fears
Sunday, July 31, 2005
AP's DAVID RISING - - Buffalo News
| When the bomb he tried to detonate aboard a London subway train failed to explode, police say Osman Hussain jumped out a window, ran along the track, then tore through back yards before melting into the city's bustle.
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New criticism of base-closing plan
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| Several members of the base closure commission Monday blasted parts of the Pentagon's proposed shutdown plan, saying the Air Force needed to help redraw some of its proposals, especially those affecting the National Guard.
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Roberts is Supreme Court pick
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| President Bush on Tuesday nominated federal appeals court Judge John G. Roberts Jr. a native of Western New York - to the U.S. Supreme Court, choosing a well-respected conservative whose views are nonetheless likely to spark a confirmation battle.
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Blair cites Islamic extremism
Sunday, July 17, 2005
AP's WILLIAM J. KOLE - - Buffalo News
| Prime Minister Tony Blair warned on Saturday that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West, and authorities on three continents widened investigations into the London terrorist bombings. The number of people confirmed dead rose to 55.
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Falls base to get careful review
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| Citing concerns about homeland security, the head of the commission that will decide the fate of the Niagara air base vowed Monday to closely review the Pentagon's recommendations to close or shrink Air Guard and Air Force Reserve facilities nationwide.
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Analyst spells out flaws in Iraq plan
Sunday, May 22, 2005 WARREN P. STROBEL - - Buffalo News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| Tensions between Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and military planners over the staying power of Saddam Hussein's regime, leaks of highly classified war plans and little attention to the war's aftermath hampered planning for the Iraq war, according to a new insider account.
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Number of billion-dollar colleges and universities growing
Monday, May 23, 2005
AP's JUSTIN POPE - - Buffalo News
| Forty-seven U.S. colleges and universities now have endowments of $1 billion or more, compared with 17 a decade ago, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Harvard University alone has $22 billion, nearly $10 billion more than No. 2 Yale University.
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Non-prescription pain relievers questioned
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
AP's MARILYNN MARCHIONE - - Buffalo News
| With prescription drugs Vioxx and Bextra already pulled from the market, a study has raised disturbing questions about the heart safety of long-term use of over-the-counter pain relievers such as Advil, Motrin and Aleve.
Smokers in Norway who took such drugs for at least six months had twice the risk of dying of a heart attack, stroke or other heart-related problem.
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Gonzales starts making his mark
Monday, April 18, 2005
AP's MARK SHERMAN - - Buffalo News
| It has taken barely two months for the differences between Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and his predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, to come into clear view.
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America's pill popping an epidemic
Sunday, April 17, 2005
AP's JEF DONN - - Buffalo News
| About 130 million Americans - many of them far healthier than the Heckmans - swallow, inject, inhale, infuse, spray and apply prescribed medication every month, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Americans buy much more medicine per person than the residents of any other country.
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Gingrich sees Clinton run in 2008
Thursday, April 14, 2005 MARGARET SULLIVAN - - Buffalo News
| Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted Wednesday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008 after winning re-election to her Senate seat "handily" in 2006.
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Man found alive under quake rubble
Sunday, April 3, 2005
AP's Chris Brummitt - - Buffalo News
| A man heard crying out for water was pulled alive Saturday from beneath the rubble of a building demolished five days earlier by Indonesia's most recent earthquake, after rescue teams formally called off the search for survivors.
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After Iraq, poignant reunion
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| Marine Cpl. Joel Hight bumped into his old war buddy, Cpl. Mark P. O'Brien, at a convenience store on this giant Marine base on Monday, and the experience left Hight almost speechless.
Awkward seconds passed before Hight, glancing at O'Brien, asked: "How's your arm?"
O'Brien, of East Aurora, simply shrugged and smiled and said: "Gone."
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Schiavo case batters judge
Sunday, March 27, 2005
AP's VICKIE CHACHERE - - Buffalo News
| The Florida jurist who has overseen the family's lawsuits for more than seven years has won acclaim in legal circles but at a high personal price.
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State gets $1.5 billion federal offer
Thursday, March 17, 2005 TOM PRECIOUS - - Buffalo News
| The federal government Wednesday offered New York State an additional $1.5 billion to pay for Medicaid reforms that the Pataki administration has proposed, a sudden pot of cash that could help resolve the state's budget negotiations.
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Lebanese mount huge protest against Syria
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
AP's ZEINA KARAM - - Buffalo News
| Hundreds of thousands of anti-Syrian demonstrators flooded the capital Monday in the biggest protest ever in Lebanon, surpassing the turnout for a pro-Damascus rally organized by the Islamic militant group Hezbollah. In a show of national unity, Sunnis, Druse and Christians packed Martyrs Square as brass bands played and balloons soared skyward.
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Can Congress put skids to identity theft?
Thursday, March 10, 2005 FRANK DAVIES - - Buffalo News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| A growing outcry over security breaches at giant information brokers - coupled with the growing sophistication of scammers - is jolting consumers with a grim threat: They're more vulnerable than ever to identity theft.
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Mideast facing new challenges
Monday, March 7, 2005 WARREN P. STROBEL and JONATHAN S. LAY - - Buffalo News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| Iraqis and Palestinians have voted in free elections. Lebanese have demonstrated peacefully to demand an end to Syrian occupation. In Egypt and Saudi Arabia, long-serving rulers have made modest concessions to democracy.
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Al-Sistani demands government be formed
Monday, March 7, 2005
AP's SAMEER N. YACOUB - - Buffalo News
| Iraq's dominant Shiite-led alliance set a mid-March deadline to form a government, prodded to action Saturday by spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who demanded progress after more than a month of post-election haggling.
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High court decision spares four in LA. from death penalty
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 ROBERT J. McCARTHY - - Buffalo News
| Even from the beginning, the relationship between Joel A. Giambra and Erie County Republicans was something akin to fingernails scraping down a blackboard.
Old-line Republicans could only wince in wonder as the City Hall Democrat switched parties in 1999 to become county executive and their titular leader. And by the start of his second term in 2004, the statewide GOP discovered Giambra on its doorstep, too - seriously discussing a U.S. Senate candidacy.
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New threat against U.S. called 'credible'
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
AP's LARA JAKES JORDAN and KATHERINE SHRADER - - Buffalo News
| New intelligence indicates that Osama bin Laden is enlisting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, his top operative in Iraq, to plan potential attacks on the United States, federal officials said Monday.
Al-Zarqawi has been involved in attacks in the Middle East. He has not been known to have set his sights on America.
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Senate votes to curb suits
Saturday, February 12, 2005
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Buffalo News
| The Senate approved a measure Thursday to help shield businesses from major class-action lawsuits such as the ones that have been brought against tobacco companies, giving President Bush the first legislative victory of his second term.
Under the legislation, long sought by big business, large multistate class-action lawsuits could no longer be heard in small state courts. Such courts have handed out multimillion-dollar verdicts.
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Pataki approval at lowest point
Saturday, February 12, 2005 TOM PRECIOUS - - Buffalo News
| Only one-third of New Yorkers approve of Gov. George E. Pataki's job performance, his lowest approval rating ever and a level likely to give further pause to Republicans already worried about his re-election chances next year, according to a poll released Thursday.
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Insurgents continue attacks in Iraq
Monday, November 29, 2004
AP's MAGGIE MICHAEL - - Buffalo News
| Iraq's most feared terror group claimed responsibility Sunday for slaughtering members of the Iraqi security forces in Mosul, where dozens of bodies have been found.
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Weather snarls holiday travel
Friday, November 26, 2004 T.J. PIGNATARO and STEPHEN WATSON - - Buffalo News
| Better late than never.
That was the prevailing opinion of holiday travelers Wednesday in and out of Buffalo.
They were thankful for a safe journey. As for their missing luggage, 12-hour air flights and growling, empty stomachs?
Well, that's another story.
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Arms cache in Fallujah 'enough' for rebellion
Friday, November 26, 2004
AP's KATARINA KRATOVAC - - Buffalo News
| U.S. Marine officers said Wednesday that U.S. and Iraqi troops sweeping Fallujah have uncovered enough weapons to fuel a nationwide rebellion and that clearing the former insurgent bastion of arms is holding up the return of civilians.
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Truckers still waiting for relief
Thursday, November 25, 2004 BILL MICHELMORE - - Buffalo News
| NIAGARA FALLS - Proposals come and go, but trucks keep rolling, often slowly, over the only two Western New York crossings available to them.
Five proposals for truck crossings between New York State and Ontario - three by ferry and two over bridges - have been pitched during the last five years to reduce commercial backups on the two Niagara River bridges.
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Who's taming budget gorilla?
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
AP's Alan Fram - - Buffalo News
| How bad is the government's deficit problem? The just-passed $388 billion bill financing almost every federal agency in 2005 could be eliminated and there would still be red ink.
The massive measure that Congress approved Saturday held the growth of domestic programs to about 1 percent - one of the sparest increases in years - falling below the rate of inflation. But the legislation did not touch the largest and fastest-growing side of the budget - Social Security, Medicare and other benefits paid automatically without Congress having to vote on them.
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'I have no regrets'
Sunday, November 21, 2004 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| A young Marine from East Aurora who lost two limbs in Iraq talks about his pain and patriotism - and the buddies he reluctantly left behind.
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Seeking common ground
Saturday, November 20, 2004 JAY REY and ROBERT J. McCARTHY - - Buffalo News
| The 2004 election may have somehow defined values as opposing abortion and gay marriage, but one's own moral sense - no matter how disparate - carries immense weight in voting. While neither end of the belief spectrum seems ready to change, there is a willingness to listen to the opposing view. Somewhere in that, it seems, is room for common ground.
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Doubts raised on Iran N-vow
Sunday, November 21, 2004
AP's GEORGE JAHN - - Buffalo News
| Raising doubts about its commitment, Iran is producing significant quantities of a gas that can be used to make nuclear arms just days before it must stop all work related to uranium enrichment, diplomats said Friday.
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Schumer won't run for governor in 2006
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 DOUGLAS TURNER - - Buffalo News
| Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday he will not be running for governor or any other office in 2006 - an announcement that lifted Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer into the Democrats' top slot to seek New York State's governorship.
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Foreign jihadists no longer get any respect in Fallujah
Sunday, November 14, 2004 HANNAH ALLAM - - Buffalo News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| Foreign fighters, once admired by residents of Fallujah as comrades in their struggle against American forces, have become reviled as their promises of protection went unfulfilled during the U.S. offensive.
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Weaker dollar helps many U.S. companies
Thursday, November 11, 2004
AP's ELLEN SIMON - - Buffalo News
| American company Tupperware Corp. is rooting for the dollar to stay weak, while Irish crystal maker Waterford Wedgwood PLC wants the opposite. The reasons why show how the dollar's fall to a record low against the euro boosts some companies but bruises others.
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Schools fight back
Monday, November 8, 2004 PETER SIMON - - Buffalo News
| As attacks in city schools appear to be on the rise, teachers, administrators and the Buffalo Teachers Federation try to develop new plans to stop the violence.
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$150 million tax hit uncovered
Monday, November 8, 2004 JONATHAN D. EPSTEIN - - Buffalo News
| New York State businesses are about to be hit with a hefty tax, after the state borrowed more than $400 million from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits and failed to pay it back.
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Democrats' harsh new world
Sunday, November 7, 2004 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| Democrats across the country awoke from last week's election to a reality more troubling than just losing the White House.
This was not just a defeat for John F. Kerry. Party leaders and pundits agreed it was a defeat that showed growing Democratic weakness in what once had been the party's heartland and new weakness among some of its longtime core supporters.
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Kerry's Votes Key to Bush Win, Rove Says
Sunday, November 7, 2004
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - Buffalo News
| Reflecting on how he delivered President Bush his second term, White House political adviser Karl Rove admitted Sunday that John Kerry's vote for, then against, funding in Iraq and Afghanistan was the "gift that kept on giving."
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Buffalo seen as possible link with supercomputer network
Saturday, November 6, 2004 FRED O. WILLIAMS - - Buffalo News
| Supercomputers like those at the University at Buffalo let researchers simulate hurricanes, space shots and molecular interactions.
Now scientists are working on ultra high-speed links between supercomputer centers, to connect researchers with the enormous troves of data they need for computer models.
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Election results revive speculation on Clinton
Saturday, November 6, 2004 DOUGLAS TURNER - - Buffalo News
| Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is at the crossroads - again.
After tirelessly storming the country for Sen. John F. Kerry and raising millions of dollars for his candidacy and for Democrats in Congress, she, after Kerry's defeat, has become the party's favorite for 2008.
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Looking for Mr., or Ms., Perfect for 2008
Saturday, November 6, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Buffalo News
| Wanted: a former altar boy from the Southwest who speaks Spanish, married into a rich Republican family from Ohio and revolutionized the Internet after working as a volunteer firefighter in Florida.
Position: president of the United States.
Building a perfect candidate for 2008 is easy with hindsight and exit polls at your disposal. Three years and 360 days away from the next presidential election, this is what Republicans and Democrats might be looking for:
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Second term replete with problems
Thursday, November 4, 2004
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Buffalo News
| Successful in persuading voters not to change leaders in wartime, President Bush faces a second term packed with problems bred in his first, from the need for an exit strategy in Iraq to the prospect of staggering budget deficits at home.
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Reynolds euphoric over campaign
Thursday, November 4, 2004 DOUGLAS TURNER - - Buffalo News
| Dispensing with his customary game face, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds flashed a big smile and almost shouted, "Good morning" when he greeted reporters Wednesday morning.
And no wonder. The Clarence Republican rewrote the political record book Election Day as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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Saddam's family fires lead defense attorney
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
AP's Jamal Halaby - - Buffalo News
| Saddam Hussein's family dismissed a prominent Jordanian lawyer who led the ousted Iraqi dictator's defense team, accusing him of seeking "personal gain and fame" in the high-profile case, other legal team members said Tuesday.
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Ex-bodyguard says bin Laden 'wanted to fight' Americans
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
AP's MANFRED ROLFSMEIER - - Buffalo News
| Osama bin Laden spoke months before the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 of a strike against the United States and said there would be "thousands of dead," a Jordanian-born man who says he served briefly as the al-Qaida leader's bodyguard testified Tuesday.
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Countdown to Election Day
Sunday, October 31, 2004 DOUGLAS TURNER - - Buffalo News
| The most polarizing presidential contest in decades, and by far the most expensive at $1.2 billion, is expected to draw a record number of voters Tuesday - an estimated 10 million more than took part in the split decision of 2000.
Worries about war in Iraq, doubts about the economy, and deep rifts over religion and culture have energized this national campaign like few others, according to politicians and analysts watching the race.
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'A potential avalanche in turnout'
Monday, November 1, 2004 ROBERT J. McCARTHY - - Buffalo News
| Your voting experience Tuesday may involve more than just you and those usually lonely volunteers sitting at the polling place.
For a change, you may wait in line.
That's because Tuesday's contest between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry is spawning an unprecedented level of enthusiasm that may produce the heaviest turnout in years, according to political experts locally and nationally.
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7 Detained in Afghanistan Kidnapping
Friday, October 29, 2004
AP's Matthew Pennington - - Buffalo News
| Police detained seven suspects for questioning in the kidnapping of three U.N. election workers in the Afghan capital, officials said Friday. But investigators appeared no closer to establishing whether Taliban-linked militants or criminals were responsible for the abductions.
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Tape showing bin Laden jolts race
Saturday, October 30, 2004
AP's Mary Dalrymple and TERENCE HUNT - - Buffalo News
| Sen. John F Kerry criticized President Bush on Friday for failing to capture Osama bin Laden as a new videotape of the terrorist leader surfaced just four days before the election. Bush accused his Democratic opponent of "shameful" second-guessing in the face of threats by America's deadly foe.
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Going where votes count the most
Thursday, October 28, 2004 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| After four years at the helm of Buffalo's largest law firm, Dianne Bennett now works morning, noon and night in this crossroads farm town, which is home to 13,485 people and, it seems, infinite numbers of pumpkins.
No, she's not out of her gourd. She's just determined to help John Kerry get elected president Tuesday.
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Schools to offer prizes for healthy eating
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 PETER SIMON - - Buffalo News
| An ambitious effort to change the attitudes and eating habits of children is taking the cause of good nutrition right to the source: the school cafeteria.
A $450,000 project, notable for its size and scope, will offer weekly rewards to about 30,000 Buffalo pupils who eat fruits and vegetables at lunch.
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Polls grow increasingly fuzzy
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 DOUGLAS TURNER - - Buffalo News
| John F. Kerry leads President Bush, 47 percent to 46 percent, in the latest AP/Ipsos Public Affairs poll.
Yet Bush leads Democrat Kerry by 8 percentage points in a new TIPP survey.
And Republican Bush leads Kerry, 47 percent to 45 percent, in the new Reuters/Zogby Survey.
These see-saw results in national polls point to new and unsolved challenges in polling because of new telecommunications products.
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Rehnquist illness has weight on election
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Stephen Henderson and Seth Borenstein - - Buffalo News (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who remains hospitalized after surgery related to thyroid cancer over the weekend, may be sicker than Supreme Court officials are willing to admit, several medical experts told Knight Ridder on Monday.
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U.S. Senate campaign in New York shifts focus
Monday, October 25, 2004 TOM PRECIOUS - - Buffalo News
| ITHACA - It wasn't until 46 minutes into the 60-minute debate last week when two words that so dominated the U.S. Senate campaign six years ago were uttered: upstate economy.
But the phrase, in the only upstate debate of the campaign, didn't come from the lips of Sen. Charles E. Schumer, who used it like a mantra in his 1998 race against then-Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato.
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300 climb pyramid in protest of Wal-Mart
Monday, October 25, 2004
AP's EDUARDO VERDUGO - - Buffalo News
| TEOTIHUACAN, Mexico - More than 300 demonstrators streamed into the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan on Sunday and climbed partway up the towering Pyramid of the Sun, the latest in a string of protests against the construction of a Wal-Mart-owned store nearby.
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Ohio might hold key to victory
Monday, October 25, 2004 JERRY ZREMSKI - - Buffalo News
| The fate of the presidency may be decided in Ohio communities like this one, a slate-gray Lackawanna look-alike filled with ramshackle factories and down-on-their-luck voters like Dan Kennedy and Danny Lazar.
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Clinton back to add zip to Kerry's team
Sunday, October 24, 2004
AP's NANCY BENAC - - Buffalo News
| Bill Clinton has always had a flair for political drama. Now it looks like his just-in-time recovery from heart surgery, allowing him to campaign for John F. Kerry in the election's closing days, may provide a jolt of excitement that any candidate would covet.
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Even within town households, Bush vs. Kerry highly divisive
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 CHARITY VOGEL - - Buffalo News
| The Town of Tonawanda is a meat-and-potatoes kind of place.
Around here, people care about the issues that hit them at their front doors - the draft, flu shots, Social Security, schools.
Which means that they've been thinking a lot about the presidential election.
And which means that most people on these quiet, meticulously manicured streets made up their minds on whom to vote for - John F. Kerry or George W. Bush - a while ago.
Now they're just counting the days until the election.
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Security Tight for Sharon Amid Gaza Vote
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
AP's JOSEF FEDERMAN - - Buffalo News
| Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a dramatic entrance into Israel's parliament Wednesday surrounded by a large phalanx of bodyguards, as security officials voiced concern for his safety before a parliamentary vote on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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Vying for a 'V' label: Victory
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 ROBERT J. McCARTHY - - Buffalo News
| If there's one label Brian M. Higgins proudly wears in his campaign for Congress this fall, it's that "D" behind his name.
The one that stands for Democrat. The one he shouts about and emphasizes at every opportunity.
It's a far different approach for his opponent, Nancy A. Naples. In a congressional district dominated by 80,000 more Democrats than Republicans, Naples is delicately tiptoeing across her Republican line. If there's a label for her, it's "independent."
Call it the campaign of the Capital "D" and the small "r." As Higgins proclaims his Democratic philosophy in speeches and omnipresent campaign ads, Naples professes loyalty to President Bush and the GOP - but at a respectful distance.
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FDA Orders Strong Antidepressant Warnings
Saturday, October 16, 2004
AP's Diedtra Henderson - - Buffalo News
| The Food and Drug Administration on Friday ordered that all antidepressants carry "black box" warnings that they "increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior" in children who take them.
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Some 28 U.S. GIs Face Afghan Abuse Cases
Friday, October 15, 2004
AP's JOHN J. LUMPKIN - - Buffalo News
| Up to 28 U.S. soldiers face possible criminal charges in connection with the deaths of two prisoners at an American-run prison in Afghanistan two years ago, the Army announced Thursday.
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Debate centers on WNY economy
Thursday, October 14, 2004 ROBERT J. McCARTHY - - Buffalo News
| Republican Nancy A. Naples and Democrat Brian M. Higgins debated the issues dominating one of the fiercest congressional contests in the nation Tuesday night, offering similar remedies for reviving the Western New York economy but very different arguments over who is best qualified to lead the effort.
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A faith divided at the polls
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 JAY TOKASZ - - Buffalo News
| Karen Flumerfeldt's first vote for a U.S. president went to John F. Kennedy, a charismatic Catholic senator from Massachusetts who rode the Catholic vote in 1960 to victory over Richard M. Nixon. Forty-four years later, the unanimity among Catholic voters that propelled Kennedy to victory has long since splintered.
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Panel to Probe Fraud Claims in Afghan Vote
Monday, October 11, 2004
AP's DANIEL COONEY - - Buffalo News
| Afghan election officials agreed Sunday to create an independent commission to probe opposition charges of fraud in this nation's first-ever presidential poll, while ballot-boxes stuffed with the aspirations of the people of this war-ravaged land started to stack up in counting centers.
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Al-Sadr Loyalists Agree to Hand Over Arms
Sunday, October 10, 2004
AP's Rawya Rageh - - Buffalo News
| Shiite militiamen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed Saturday to begin handing in weapons, a significant step toward restoring order in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City slum as the interim government struggles to curb Iraq's more widespread Sunni insurgency.
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AP Poll: Kerry Holds Small Lead Over Bush
Friday, October 8, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Buffalo News
| Sen. John Kerry has taken a slim lead over President Bush, according to an Associated Press poll that shows the president's support tumbling on personal qualities, the war in Iraq and the commander in chief's bedrock campaign issue - national security.
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Title IX: the sequel
Sunday, October 3, 2004 AMY MORITZ - - Buffalo News
| In the 1970s, only one in 27 girls participated in high school sports. Today, 32 years after the landmark federal anti-discrimination law known as Title IX was enacted, it's one in three.
That's more than 2.8 million girls participating in high school competitive sports alone, and while gender equity supporters continue to battle for more opportunities and better funding for scholarships, recruiting and salaries, there's a new concern in the Title IX camp.
What about those two out of three girls who are not playing sports?
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Edwards' visit is mellow
Sunday, October 3, 2004 LOU MICHEL - - Buffalo News
| CHAUTAUQUA - Sen. John Edwards didn't say a word in public, but his presence was enough to create a buzz in the peaceful retreat of the Chautauqua Institution on a dreary autumn day.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate confined himself to Lenna Hall, rehearsing on a replica of the stage where he will appear Tuesday in Cleveland to debate Vice President Cheney.
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Kerry makes strides locally
Saturday, October 2, 2004 JOHN F. BONFATTI - - Buffalo News
| In a place where George Bush handily won in 2000 - and where voting rolls suggest he will do well in 2004 - Sen. John Kerry apparently gained ground after Thursday's presidential debate.
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Challenger earns right to fight another day
Friday, October 1, 2004 DOUGLAS TURNER - - Buffalo News
| Democratic nominee John F. Kerry may have put himself back into the presidential race by offering himself in the first of three presidential debates as a credible alternative to President Bush, according to some analysts.
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Fewer foreign students pick U.S.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 STEPHEN WATSON - - Buffalo News
| They come from all over the world to study in this country, traveling many thousands of miles and meeting stringent academic and security requirements.
Many stay here, filling jobs in mathematics, engineering and other fields that native students shy away from. Or they return to their home countries as ambassadors with favorable impressions of the United States.
Today, that flow of students is beginning to dry up.
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