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Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Morning Scoop - How Romney Could Win
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Now that Mitt Romney is formally announcing his candidacy later today in New Hampshire, it's time to take stock of what he brings to the table. The Daily Beast's Mark McKinnon says to win, Romney needs to quit pandering, wear a tie and embrace his inner CEO. Romney needs to just be who he is and quit trying to turn himself into a pretzel for the right, as he did last time around.
Multiple tornadoes swept through western Massachusetts on Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more. The twisters hit downtown Springfield, about 90 miles west of Boston, and at least 19 surrounding communities, according to the state's governor, Deval Patrick, who gave a press conference along with Sen. John Kerry to address the disaster. One person was killed in Springfield when the car he was driving was struck by a fallen tree, and three more were reported dead in Westfield and Brimfield. Patrick has already mobilized 1,000 National Guard troops to help with the cleanup. "It's been particularly devastating in downtown Springfield," the governor said.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, already in trouble before the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis, has managed to hold on to power a little longer. On Thursday, Kan survived a no-confidence motion, but said he would step down once the country's reconstruction was taken care of. One of Kan's rivals from within his own party, Ichiro Ozawa, set a more-concrete deadline, saying the Prime Minister would step down no later than this summer. Kan's surprise announcement was apparently enough to sway major ruling party officials expected to vote in favor of his departure, swinging the vote from a close call to a more-comfortable 293-152. Doubts over the Japanese government's ability to reign in its deficit—twice the size of its economy—prompted Moody's to put its debt rating on review this week.
It seems the cyber-attack Google says originated in China had some success, nabbing the login information of hundreds of journalists, Chinese political activists, and senior South Korean and U.S. government officials - including the personal email of one Cabinet-level official. Google said an ongoing "spear phishing" attack had been targeting government personnel and activists with emails designed to be relevant to the recipient, with subject lines like "Fw: Draft U.S.-China Joint Statement." The messages led readers to sites that would steal their login information or silently redirect their email. A spokesman for China's Foreign Affairs Ministry said that "any blame against China in this [latest incident] is groundless and with an ulterior motive." Google has said only that the attack appeared to originate in the city of Jinan. China's Lanxiang Vocational School, which trains computer scientists for China's military and where last year's hack attack on Google seemed to originate, is located in Jinan.
Russia has banned the import of all fresh vegetables from Europe as the mysterious E. coli outbreak continues. More than 1,500 people have been infected and 17 people have died—16 of them in Germany and one in Sweden. German officials previously alleged that Spanish cucumbers may have been to blame, but they now confess they have no idea where the virulent bacteria strain is coming from. Spain is seeking compensation for the allegation, which has cost Spanish farmers an estimated $290 million per week. German officials say they may never know where the outbreak came from and that it may continue for months. Still, the EU condemned Russia's ban as disproportionate, pointing out that Russia accounts for a quarter of the union's total food exports.
He doesn't know if that's him in the gray underwear? Howard Kurtz on why the congressman's evasive answers are fueling the media frenzy. Plus, watch Weinergate's 8 best moments and more updates on the scandal.
Twitter's Fake Royals: The Pippa That Isn't. by Lloyd Grove Who's pretending to be the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Pippa Middleton? Lloyd Grove on the tweets that thousands of Twitter followers have fallen for.
Spider-Man's Pay Dispute With Fired Director Julie Taymor by Jacob Bernstein The troubled Broadway musical may be heading to court over the six months' pay it allegedly owes fired director Julie Taymor. In a Daily Beast exclusive, Jacob Bernstein details the ugly new wrinkle in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark's long saga of injuries, postponements, and critical pans.
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