Sorry, Senator, I'M Taking the Daddy Track

Tim Raftis, the campaign director for Democratic presidential candidate TOM HARKIN, has a management style that owes more to Robert Bly than to Lee Atwater. Last week Raftis, 32, abruptly left the campaign trail. Reason: his wife gave birth to a boy, and the 32-year-old strategist wanted to help out at home.

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GREGG KEESLING on reports that he received a call from an Army official saying he wasn't eligible to receive a condolence letter from President Obama because his son committed suicide, rather than dying in action
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PETER COSANDEY, a former Zurich prosecutor, after a Swiss court granted director Roman Polanksi $4.5 million bail to move from a Swiss jail to house arrest

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