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Just when you thought everyone had moved on... former advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a tizzy over an upcoming piece in the Atlantic Monthly that chronicles the inner workings of the now-defunct campaign.
Of particular concern are nearly 200 internal memos that the author, Josh Green, obtained -- 130 or so of which he plans to scan in and post online. When the piece is published sometime next week, readers will be able to scroll through the memos, from senior strategists such as Mark Penn, Harold Ickes and Geoff Garin, and see what exactly was going on inside the infamously fractured Clinton organization. That has some former team members in a panic.
Marc Ambinder has a question about the about the John McCain bundler scandal:
If there were a group of questionable donations all with the name Abdullah that were funneled through a guy in Jordan who is a Jordanian national who is under investigation for war profiteering and it were Barack Obama instead of John McCain would this be a bigger deal?
McCain is returning $50,000 in donations solicited by Mustafa Abu Naba'a from members of a single extended family in California, the Abdullahs, along with several of their friends. Abu Naba'a is a dual citizen of Jordan and the Dominican Republic.
Tickets for Barack Obama's Democratic National Convention speech at the Invesco Field in Denver sold out within 24 hours, according to campaign officials.
In early July, convention organizers announced the Illinois senator would officially accept the Democratic nomination at the 75,000 seat stadium rather than a 20,000 seat hall.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beach volleyball's popularity has created something of a love-hate relationship with television.
The highly-photogenic sport has been a winner for broadcasters at the Olympics, where according to the International Olympic Committee it accumulated 3.5 billion television viewer hours during the Athens Games.
In turn that has raised the profile of beach volleyball, inspired more countries to build up teams, and lured in sponsors.
The downside is that broadcasters start to demand games be played to fit their schedules and in a style that makes better television.
In Beijing, the semi-finals and finals will be played in the morning to catch the all-important evening prime time viewing in the United States and Brazil, where beach volleyball has a wide following.