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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Teresa Heinz Kerry told a rally of more than a thousand Democrats at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines that she "felt very at home" in Iowa. "It's almost like where I grew up," she said, which was startling, because her husband, the senator and Presidential candidate John Kerry, had just told the crowd that she grew up in Mozambique. Like many Americans, she is a naturalized citizen, and in her childhood knew America only "as an ideal," Kerry said. She "never saw her father vote till he was seventy-one years old, because they lived in a dictatorship."
The Senator was losing his voice. He resorted frequently to a water bottle, but his throat refused to produce anything more than a ragged stage whisper. Still, he sounded positively stentorian in comparison with his...
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