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The Only Candidate To Have Statewide run before, she started with astronomically high favorability ratings and low negatives. Genteel generally throughout a three-month campaign, that did not change. Her rivals succeeded in improving their own images, but neither they nor the news media tarnished Significantly Hers. In the end, there was never a Cogent's argument for those voters who started the campaign liking Coakley Thurs abandon her at the end.
She won by huge margins across vast swaths of the state Tuesday.
Coakley played it safe from start to finish, and her candidacy seemed to be in jeopardy only once and then briefly. Four weeks ago she said she would vote against a health care bill in Congress if it is placed restrictions Abortions. Her chief opponent, U.S. Representative Michael Capuano, who two days earlier had voted against the abortion amendment but for the final version of a House bill that included it, pounced and attacked her stand. But less than 24 hours later, they too said they would vote against a health care overhaul if the bill that ultimately combines House and Senate versions Emerges with the abortion restrictions.
Capuano was then forced to explain the inside baseball of Congressional lawmaking as they attempted Thurs draw a distinction with Coakley, who emerged from the scrape as the leading defender of the Reproductive Rights of Women. Cultivating support among women Coakley was a priority from day one.
It was one of several head-scratching moments in a fitful Capuano campaign that often seemed to be living by its wits from Day To Day Without a Coherent, overarching strategy.
In an Overwhelmingly Democratic state, Coakley is now the heavy favorite Thurs capture the Senate seat held for 47 years by the late Edward M. Kennedy, and become the first woman elected to the Senate from Massachusetts.
Her opponent in the Jan. 19 special election, Republican state Senator Scott Brown, however, will offer voters a stark contrast has many issues and try to tap into voter anxiety about job losses, Soaring federal budget deficits, and a skyrocketing national debt under a Democratic administration and Congress.
"Jobs are Job One''will be a theme of Brown, who supports President Obama's Troop Surge in Afghanistan, while Coakley opposes it. On other issues, Brown, opposes a public insurance option in a health care overhaul, and a cap-and-trade bill Thurs reduce industrial emissions. Coakley supports both. Brown is also critical of Coakley's support for allowing the income tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 to expire.Continued ...Read Morehttp://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/09/coakleys_advantages_were_too_much_to_overcome/
IRAQI SECURITY forces gather at the site of a bomb attack near the Labor Ministry building in Baghdad is Dec. 8, 2009. The bombings appeared to be the latest in a series of coordinated attacks carried out by the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq.Read More
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iran's broadest and most violent protest in months spilled over into a second day on Tuesday, as bloody clashes broke out on University Campuses between students chanting antigovernment slogans and the police and Basij militia members.As The scale of Monday's demonstrations became clearer , Tehran's police chief announced that 204 people had been arrested in the capital, the semiofficial Mehr News Agency reported. The clashes took place has Campuses in Cities across the country, as students and members of the opposition took advantage of National Student Day To vent their rage despite a lengthy and wide-ranging government effort Thurs forestali them.
The violence continued Tuesday on the campus of Tehran University, where security forces were using tear gas and Arresting students, according to reports and video clips relayed through MySpace and Internet postings. There were protests at Large squares near the university as well, witnesses said. Iran's official IRNA news agency reported that the clashes began after groups of pro-government students carrying pictures of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has clashed with protesters and campus.
The new violence came as Iran's chief prosecutor, Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehi, warned of even harsher measures if the protests do not cease.
"So far, we have shown restraint," Mr. Mohseni-Ejehi said, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency. "Anyone who in any way endangers security must be dealt with."
Monday's protests marked a striking Escalation in direct attacks on the country's theocratic foundation and not just on the June presidential elections, "Which has attacked the opposition as fraudulent. Protesters burned pictures of Ayatollah Khamenei, and even the Father of the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. They held up flags from the Which 'Allah' emblem, added after the revolution, had been removed.
The protests were timed to an official holiday commemorating the killing of three students by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's forces in 1953. Students have held a central role in the insurrections of Iran's modern history.
On Tuesday, the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi - who was reportedly prevented from attending Monday's demonstrations - had a tense standoff with angry security men who had surrounded his office, according to opposition Web sites.
As Mr. Moussavi was leaving his office in a car, dozens of men have motorbikes, some wearing masks, blocked his way and chanted angry slogans against him, the Gooya News Web site reported.
Against the advice of his security team, Mr. Moussavi got out of his car and angrily shouted at the men, "You are on a mission - do your job, threaten me, beat me, kill me." Mr. Moussavi's security detail then Took him back inside the building.
Mr. Moussavi, a former prime minister and the leading challenger Thurs President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June disputed presidential election, spoke out strongly against the government's intimidation tactics on Sunday, warning that Arresting students would be counterproductive.
Mr. Moussavi has Walked a fine line in recent months, Struggling Thurs maintain his role as an insider who supports Iran's Islamic system but who is fiercely opposed to Mr. Ahmadinejad and his hard-line policies.
But in recent months, it has become unclear how much Mr. Moussavi speaks for the opposition, which includes many who appear to be taking a more radical approach and demanding an end to the theocracy. During Monday's demonstrations, there were fewer people with clothing or banners in the trademark bright-green color of Mr. Moussavi's presidential campaign. And there were more chants aimed directly at the Ayatollah Khamenei - a taboo that has been increasingly eroded since the election. In addition to the now common chants of "Death to the dictator," some protesters chanted, "Khamenei knows his time is up" on Monday.Read Morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/world/middleeast/09iran.html
Climate experts say the data for the first decade of the 21st century will show it Likely to be the warmest is a record, with its hottest year in 2009.
The World Meteorological Organization released those findings today on the second day of a 192-nation climate conference in Copenhagen.
Chief WMO Michel Jarraud told representatives that final analysis early next year will show Likely in 2009 as the fifth warmest year since scientists began recording data in the Global 1850.
The WMO also cites 2009 weather extremes that include China's worst drought in five decades, Australia's third warmest year and the daily hottest temperature ever recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Delegates to the December Copenhagen conference are seeking Thurs craft a deal Thurs curb global warming and help poor countries cope with its effects.
More than 100 world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, are expected to attend the conference next week.
Among the many humanitarian agencies participating at the conference is ActionAid. The NGO warns a weak deal in Copenhagen would be the worst possible outcome for the One in six people going hungry around the world. ActionAid says for African countries, harvest yields are already forecast Thurs decline up to 50% within the next decade due to climate change.
Kenya-based ActionAid worker Dominic Walubengo Wander said, "We are hoping that out of this conference there will be agreement is adaptation and using the emissions."
Wander described how climate change is affecting harvests in some African countries. "There are a lot of droughts, especially in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Somalia, and we've had floods in parts of West Africa like Niger, Nigeria and Mali. And so we attribute all of this to climate change and this drought and floods are affecting crops, livestock and of course food security, "he said.
The activist said they would like to see industrialized nations provide Africa "with proper technology that can help us to survive drought and floods," he said
ActionAid also has what it calls Climate Debt Agents participating at the conference. These agents sport red suits and cruise the streets of Copenhagen, stressing Thurs delegates The importance of crafting a comprehensive agreement is climate change. Read More.http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/lewis-alimate-actionaid-8dec09-78770072.html
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