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Clinton Beats Obama Handily in West Virginia (U.S., 83 articles)
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The campaign said the West Virginia primary on Tuesday gave Mrs. Clinton the overall edge in the popular vote, if Michigan and Florida are included and some caucus states are not. " Pro-choice Americans have been fortunate to have two strong pro-choice candidates in Senator Obama and Senator Clinton, both of whom have inspired millions of new voters to participate in this historic presidential race NARAL president Nancy Keenan said in a statement. The long-awaited endorsement helped blunt the impact of Clinton's landslide 41-point win over Obama in West Virginia on Tuesday. One in five whites said race influenced their choice of a candidate, one of the highest proportions who have said so in states that have voted thus far. Roughly a third of the voters in both states said the Wright situation was very important in their vote, and those voters went heavily for Clinton. Three in 10 Obama voters said their own candidate campaigned unfairly while three-quarters of them said Clinton hit below the belt. LOOKING AHEAD TO THE END OF THE NOMINATION FIGHT... If they had to choose, seven in 10 voters said they 'd prefer that their candidate wins the Democratic presidential nomination, even if the race continues for months.
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ABC News: China's Misery Grows With 15,000 Dead, 26,000 Entombed and 14,000 Missing (World, 12 articles)
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p 05-14) 13:26 PDT DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) Modern apartment buildings and schools crumbled, smoothly paved highways buckled and bridges collapsed - their flimsy construction no match for the awesome forces of nature. As the death toll soars from the powerful earthquake that ravaged central China's Sichuan province, the scale of the devastation is raising questions about the quality of China's recent construction boom. A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.
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Aid worker enters 'unrecognizable' Myanmar delta (World, 23 articles)
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BANGKOK - Military authorities in Burma have agreed to let 160 aid workers from four Asian countries assist its struggling cyclone relief effort, aid officials said yesterday, the government's first acknowledgment that it needs foreign expertise. The Burmese authorities have sealed off the cyclone disaster zone from the outside world, expelling foreign aid workers and placing multiple checkpoints along roads into the Irrawaddy delta, to the despair of foreign diplomats and aid workers. Aid groups are trying instead to mount a stealth operation in which Western aid is distributed by government organisations, local aid workers, and international staff from countries which the regime regards as friendly and compliant.
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Meeting between Goodell, Walsh provides no new information on Patriots' videotaping procedures (U.S., 21 articles)
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Mr. Specter said the former employee , Matt Walsh, described elaborate measures by the Patriots to conceal their filming of opponents' signals. NEW YORK - Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday that Matt Walsh had provided no new information about the New England Patriots' illicit videotaping tactics, and that the team and its coach , Bill Belichick, would not be punished further. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft complimented the Boston Herald on Wednesday for apologizing for a story that said his team videotaped a St. Louis Rams walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl.
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Grim Brazilian drama opens Cannes film festival (Entertainment, 12 articles)
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After a couple of years where Hollywood threatened to overshadow the more serious side of the Cannes Film Festival, this year's event seems to have taken a step back towards the arthouse. The jury, led by indie darling Sean Penn, will be watching a series of films by festival favourites such as Arnaud Desplechin and Wim Wenders. "Blindness" by director Fernando Meirelles, whose films include "City of God and" The Constant Gardener is about an epidemic of blindness that strikes suddenly and inexplicably, with victims shunted off to a squalid institution.
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