Is This The Race For 2008?

If so, why are Clinton and McCain smiling? Because the two can agree on one thing: getting to the White House depends on winning the hearts of moderate America

The scene at the July premiere of the new movie The Great Raid had the giddy, cultivated intrigue of a Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes photo op--or as close as you can come in Washington. A full hour after the scheduled start, the couple that everyone was waiting for finally touched down on the red carpet. They posed together with practiced ease, a pair so appealing and yet so unlikely that you had to wonder what had brought them together: chemistry or ambition? "Ladies and gentlemen," Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein proclaimed as they swept into the packed theater, "I'd like to introduce you...

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