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Complaints about the chaotic conditions inside Cain's organization were highlighted in a New York Times article yesterday... Well-connected GOP consultant Ali Akbar, who has heard many complaints about the Cain operation, wrote yesterday: "To understand this article in proper context, you would have had to work on a dark horse longshot campaign. Rules and methods are different.… Volunteers rise to coordinators and staff positions quickly.… It's not a pretty sight, but many tea party readers know exactly what I'm talking about." The clashing of egos is routine within all campaigns. However, as many Tea Party activists have learned in the...

STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) - A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning. The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road. Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars. The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region North The rehabilitation and new construction at the Tameem Railway Station is part of a vision for the future of the country. Department of Defense photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region North. KIRKUK -- Neglected and oppressed during the Saddam era, the citizens of Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk are now rising to rebuild their city and their country’s economy. With operations back on-line in the local oil fields, additional infrastructure preparation for further economic growth is underway.The rehabilitation of the Tameem Railway Station illustrates just one case of economic...

A charter jet full of French tourists returning home after vacations in Egypt crashed into the Red Sea early Saturday, killing all 148 people aboard after an apparent mechanical failure, officials said. Searchers spent the day circling the waters in small boats looking for survivors but found only bodies, body parts and debris, including suitcases, shoes, life preservers and small bits of plane wreckage. Swimsuit-clad tourists watched the search efforts from the beach. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, President Moshe Katzav, and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz sent their condolences to the Egyptian and French governments. In France and Egypt, distraught family...