wednesday, january 28, 2004
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Kerry wins New Hampshire primary
The Associated Press
MANCHESTER, N.H. — John Kerry overpowered Howard Dean to win New Hampshire's primary Tuesday, scoring a second-straight campaign victory to establish the four-term senator as the Democratic Party's presidential front-runner.
Kerry
"It's an enormous victory, a huge turnaround," Kerry told The Associated Press. "We were written off for months, and plugged on and showed people the determination we have to defeat President Bush."
Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark were in a distant race for third.
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut was in fifth place, his candidacy in peril.
After trooping through coffee shops, country stores and living rooms of Iowa and New Hampshire, the candidates now move
to the cold realities of a national campaign — airport rallies and multimillion-dollar ad buys in seven state holding contests next Tuesday.
With 70 percent of the precincts reporting, Kerry had 39 percent, Dean had 25 percent, Clark 13 percent, Edwards 12 percent, and Lieberman 9 percent.
He did manage about twice as many votes as either Edwards or Clark, and found solace in gaining ground since his disastrous third-place finish in Iowa.
Dean, the former five-term governor of Vermont, lost by double-digits _ less than he needed for a complete rebound or to erase doubts about his viability.
"It looks like we are going to finish a solid second," said Dean, who with Kerry is flush with money and support needed to wage a lengthy campaign.
Looking toward next week, Dean insisted he will "play to win in every single state," overruling aides who urged a more cautious approach.
The former Vermont governor plans to compete in South Carolina, Missouri, New Mexico and Arizona, which holds contests
next Tuesday; Michigan and Washington state four days later; and Wisconsin, with its contest Feb.17.
Several Dean advisers had urged him to pick fewer targets, cherrypicking states to conserve resources, but he vetoed the strategy, insisting that his campaign was muscular enough to compete nationally.
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Dean has raised more than $200,000 in the 24 hours before the primary, but he has been spending money just as fast as raising it — and he will keep up the pricey pace with his new strategy.
Kerry also pledged to compete everywhere, but his twin victories should fuel the drive.
An AP analysis of the delegate count showed Kerry winning 14 delegates and Dean capturing eight, while Edwards and Clark appeared to finish below the 15 percent vote threshold needed to win any delegates.
His eye warily cast toward the fall, Bush planned a trip to New Hampshire to counter criticism heaped his way during the Democratic race. He used a similar tactic after Iowa's caucuses, scheduling his State of the Union address
one day after that contest
It has been a topsy-turvy race, with Dean leading New Hampshire polls by 25 percentage points when the year began. Kerry seizing a similar lead after Iowa and Dean gaining a bit of ground after an 11th-hour political overhaul.
"I've been in public life for a long time, and I have been in tough races before and have been scrutinized," he said. "I'm ready to lead our party to victory."
But the front-runner's mantle may prove as weighty as it was for Dean. Rivals were already sharpening their knives,
Republicans calling him a Massachusetts liberal and Democrats accusing him of equivocating on the Iraq war and accomplishing little in the Senate.
In the desperate hours after Iowa's caucuses, Dean tried to soften his image and retool his message — billing himself as a straight-shooting fiscal conservative and social liberal.
He questioned Kerry's judgment for opposing the 1991 Persian Gulf War and supporting Bush's 2002 war resolution.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton were not factors.
'Lord of the Rings' acquires most nominations
The Associated Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Middle-earth crowned its monarch. Now, Academy Awards voters seem ready to crown The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as the first fantasy to win best picture.
The final chapter of Peter Jackson's trilogy, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's classic set in an imaginary world of hobbits, wizards and elves, took a leading 11 Oscar nominations yesterday, among them best picture and director.
Key acting nominees included Golden Globe winners Bill Murray as a washed-up actor in Lost
in Translation, Diane Keaton as a down-on-love playwright in Something's Gotta Give, Charlize Theron as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster and Sean Penn as a vengeful father in Mystic River.
The Napoleonic era naval adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World received 10 nominations, including best picture and director for Peter Weir.
The other best-picture nominees were the quirky Tokyo tale Lost in Translation, the somber vengeance story Mystic River and the uplifting horse-racing drama Seabiscuit.
Another surprise pick was director Fernando Meirelles for
The most notable snubs were for the Civil War saga Cold Mountain, which failed to get nominations for best picture, director Anthony Minghella or lead actress Nicole Kidman, last year's best-actress winner for The Hours. The film had scored well in earlier movie honors.
The biggest surprise was 13 year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes. For her performance as a Maori girl bucking tribal tradition in Whale Rider, she became the youngest person ever to be nominated for lead actress.
the Brazilian film City of God.
Lost in Translation earned nominations for directing and original screenplay for Sofia Coppola. She was only the third woman ever nominated for director, after Lina Wertmuller for 1976's Seven Beauties and Jane Campion for 1993's The Piano.
A win for Coppola would make her kin the second family of three-generation winners, joining Walter, John and Anjelica Huston. Coppola's father is a five-time winner and her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, won for musical score on The Godfather Part II.
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