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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 51
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polls today
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to
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Kerry,
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home
to
to
ployment
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Navy
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Medal, Service
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with
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he
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ous
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in
to
his home
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after,
service
August,
in
he
again
Tuesday
on
up
his
to
shot
out
campaign
claiming
to
time
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world is
of
terrorism.
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trust,” Bush said
states
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to as
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final full
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opened
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described
the 2002 sexual assault
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aside, there
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father
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from
of
before
reminder
terror
fresh reminders of the elec-
the disease.
tacks of 2001—remained
last
Bush.
taunting
war on
late
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of Osama
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hop
terror
country,
emergence
a
Rehnquist,
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GOP
appealed,
reversal
a
pair
a
places.
quickly
H.
representa-
challenging
polling
lawyers
won
of the
tion's stakes. ChiefJustice William
discour-
rulings Monday
barred
their
voters,
the of
The
claiming Repubto
most
bin Laden
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were
seeking
minority
that
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campaigns primed
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campaigning.
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tives from
down
Force One carried him
half-dozen
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prediction.
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challenger
that defied safe
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awarded the
was
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ment
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tour
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Iraq. During
career,
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by
Kerry, D-Mass.,
commander of the
was
Bush, Kerry stump into divisive day
U.S. offi-
pledged loyalty
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sexually
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woman’s
friends said
a
2nd Battalion of the sth Marine
Regiment,
generation
a
student
same
University
the
Osama bin Laden.
Lynch,
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run
who
al-Zarqawi,
cials have said
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includes,
province—which of
last
in
the
10
died
city
ed
Marines
Matthew Lynch
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doubts
cast
of a
sexual
2002 that she
D-Mass.
was
ast
Monday
never
officials said.
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2002
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assaulted
was
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after
on,
Kelly Rohrs
by
months
week in
questioned
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Monday. Lynch,
Duke and
incident
2002
roadside
Saturday the
said
after suf-
a
capital
province,
of Defense who
Sunday from
fering injuries bomb
Lynch, Trinity
the
incident and
has
returned, and officials had
difficulty contacting
her.
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