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Barack, the Candidate, and Obama Mania
With soaring rhetoric and adoring crowds, Barack Obama has now demonstrated support from all elements of the Democratic Party. The current front-runner is now under scrutiny as never before. Also, competing funerals in Beirut, and will the Pentagon shoot down a spy satellite that’s about to fall out of orbit?
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenWith soaring rhetoric and adoring crowds, Barack Obama has now demonstrated support from all elements of the Democratic Party. The current front-runner is now under scrutiny as never before. Is he making promises he could never fulfill? Is he saying what Americans need to hear in the way they wan to hear it? Also, competing funerals in Beirut, and the US criticized China for creating space debris by destroying a satellite. Now it's reported that the US plans to shoot down one of its own.
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3 storiesTwo Rival Funerals in Beirut, Hezbollah Declares 'Open War'
There were two competing funerals today in Beirut, Lebanon. One, for former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , assassinated three years ago. The second, for Imad Mughnieh, the Hezbollah leader gunned down Tuesday in Damascus, Syria. Nicholas Blanford covered both of today's events for the Christian Science Monitor .
Read the story6 minBarack Obama: The Phenomenon and the Candidate
With Barack Obama making inroads with every Democratic constituency, Time magazine is asking, " Is it Too Late for Hillary? " At the same time, the Economist, with a picture of Obama on next week's cover, asks, " But Could He Deliver? " Obama's appeal is based, in part, on race, rhetoric and the promise of national unity.
Read the story34 minUS Decides to Shoot Down a Deaf Spy Satellite
Two weeks ago, we heard that a broken American spy satellite had fallen out of orbit and was scheduled to strike the Earth early next month. Little danger to humans was predicted. Today, it appears that the Pentagon plans to shoot it down before it reaches the Earth's atmosphere.
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