With the announcement this afternoon that U.S. President George Bush will host leaders of the G20, including Canada, in Washington on Nov.... PMO types are saying sometime in the next two weeks for this although the buzz around Ottawa is that a new cabinet will, in fact, be sworn in at Rideau Hall on Monday, Oct. 27.

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Mr. McCain referenced Mr. Murtha’s comments in his third stop of the day [in Pennsylvania], at Robert Morris University here, when he said, “I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately.”... “And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more,” he said, to silence, and then wandered around in a verbal thicket before finally managing to say, “I could not disagree with those critics more; this is a great part of America.”   more »

Here's one that looks interesting -- it's a quick five-week course from Stanford University professor Martin Lewis called "The Geography of U.S. Presidential Elections."... I'm going to check out Donald Kagen's course on early Greek civilization; Ben Polak's introduction to game theory; and John Merriman's history of modern France.

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