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Fratricide Reigns As ’08 Race Begins For Post-W. G.O.P.

Forget Bush-Cheney ’04. For Republicans with their eyes on the future, the main event at the Republican National Convention is Fratricide ’08.

With a mixture of concern and delight, Republicans are looking ahead to the struggle for succession in a party whose identity crisis has escalated even as its grip on the government has tightened. Read More

G.O.P. Cops-One Protector Per 2.4 Guests

Mayor Bloomberg, alongside a phalanx of top cops, stepped up to the podium at a security briefing at police headquarters on the afternoon of Aug. 9 and took a deep breath.

In the middle of giving a speech meant to reassure the public that the city will be secure during those heady days in late Read More

Hip-hoprisy

Sean (P. Diddy) Combs is not known for being at a loss for words.

But the hip-hop impresario was speechless for several seconds when The Transom asked him about his own voting record at a press conference on Tuesday morning to introduce Citizen Change, the voter-registration task force that he founded. Asked about the last Read More