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WASHINGTON - Borrowing a theme from the presidential contest, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that the possibility of a 3 a.m. emergency call to the White House is all the more reason for the next commander in chief to follow through on President Bush's plans for a national missile defense. "It's plain to see that the world around us gives ample reason to continue working on missile defense," Cheney told the conservative Heritage Foundation at a dinner recognizing the 25th anniversary of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a proposed network of rockets capable of shooting down incoming intercontinental ballistic...

[T]he participants in the vice presidential debate this evening are opposites. Dick Cheney... speaks in short declarative sentences and uses few unnecessary words. And he prefers to conduct the affairs of state in private. John Edwards, by contrast, has been an elected official for only six years. Few expect that his meteoric rise in politics will end if he and John Kerry lose this race. Sen. Edwards... is a loquacious lawyer who has made millions as a direct result of his ability to tell stories. And he's not afraid to lay it on thick. In 1985, Mr. Edwards channeled a...