Published Date: October 8, 2008

Letters
Why try to clip McCain's wings?

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Opinion

Her Great Schlep video is funny, as in peculiar.


Some undecided voters at an Albuquerque get-together see their initial inclinations reinforced; others are surprisingly swayed by the opposition. And a few find that their needle hasn't budged at all.


MEXICO UNDER SIEGE

The slaying of a rising political star is ascribed to his refusal to have any contact with drug traffickers.


EXCERPTS

Obama says affordable healthcare is the right of every American; McCain says he has a plan that will provide it without government mandates.


Opinion

Not that again. Palin's view ignores the fact that, as in religion, the attraction is undeniable. And heeding such calls is the essence of freedom.


Body language experts give Obama a slight edge in Tuesday night's debate, but both candidates score points for showing emotion and the differences in their styles.


McCain and Obama each made misstatements.


The plan, unveiled at his debate with Barack Obama, has an estimated price tag of $300 billion.


Opinion

Heal the Bay's founder lays out her vision for a clean and sustainable state supply.


Protesters of the People's Alliance for Democracy blockade parliament before an address by new Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. Mayhem begins when police fire tear gas to clear a path.


NEPAL

Nepal: 18 killed in plane crash near Mt. Everest / Australia: Investigators to study Qantas plane's plunge / Guatemala: Ex-leader Portillo is extradited / Japan: Tourist skinny-dips in moat


The issue of granting U.S. troops immunity from prosecution is a point of contention in trying to decide the future American military presence in the country.


Editorial

With a few crucial tweaks, the feds and the state should allow the economic rescue plan time to succeed.


He then leaves the country, but questions remain about whether he went voluntarily or was deported. He was in Kenya to promote his book 'The Obama Nation.'


Editorial

His options limited, the GOP candidate struggled to regain the initiative against Obama in the second presidential debate.


Editorial

The Foothill South project serves neither the state nor the nation and should be rejected by Washington.


Teacher arrested in molestation: A brief in Tuesday's California section about a former private school teacher arrested and charged with molesting two 9-year-old girls two decades ago said that the former teacher, Mark Walter Sonnenburg, allegedly molested one of the girls between January and August of 1998 and the other on Aug. 14 of that year. The year those crimes allegedly occurred is 1988.


CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

The format turns the nominees into the talk-show host and the professor.


The Iranian news agency that issued the report later acknowledges that the encounter did not involve Americans.


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Opinion

Tim Rutten has the day off.






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