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Analysis: A perfect night for Clinton, Obama? By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press Writer
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DENVER - For one evening, their political world was perfect. Or so it seemed.

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Standing before thousands of delegates, almost half of them her backers, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton declared it time "to unite as a single party with a single purpose" and urged her followers to help elect once-bitter rival Barack Obama. "We are on the same team," she said, after allowing the applause to build to a crescendo and linger, longer than usual — much like the Democratic primary race itself.

"Barack Obama is my candidate," she said. "And he must be our president."

But did she mean it? And would it matter?

True, her challenges Tuesday night were impossibly high, perhaps mutually exclusive.

She had to both promote her political future and unify her party. Clinton had to somehow convince people that she honestly thought Obama was ready for the presidency. But something stood in her way: Her words.

_Dec. 3, 2007: "So you decide which makes more sense: Entrust our country to someone who is ready on Day One ... or to put America in the hands of someone with little national or international experience, who started running for president the day he arrived in the U.S. Senate."

_March 2008. "I know Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."

_Feb. 23, 2008: "Now, I could stand up here and say, 'Let's just get everybody together. Let's get unified.' The skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect."

There in no such thing as a perfect world, though the Clinton and Obama image teams tried their best to create one. Hundreds of "Hillary" signs danced before the TV cameras, bearing her breezy blue signature. Her misty-eyed husband, former President Clinton, watched from above.

By the time she was done, Sen. Clinton had delivered a strong, convincing affirmation of Obama and, just as importantly, a thumping of McCain. She did her part. Her husband takes the stage Wednesday and then Obama must make his case to the American people that he will be ready on Day One.

That there's more to him than a single speech.

That he's the perfect man for troubled times. She brought the party together, for one night anyway, and now it's up to Obama to close the deal with voters.

Unlike Obama, she no longer needs to worry about her favorability ratings so there was no pulling punches.

"No way," Clinton said. "No how. No McCain."

She said McCain would be an extension of the Bush administration. No jobs. Poor health care coverage. High gas prices. Home foreclosures. "More war," she said, "Less diplomacy. More of a government where the privileged comes first, and everyone else come last."

In other words, Clinton seemed to say, even if Obama is everything she said during the campaign, he's still a better candidate than McCain. The speech was as much of an attack on McCain as it was an embrace of Obama. "We don't need four more years of the last eight years," she said.

The crowd, Obama and Clinton delegates alike, loved it.

She took the high road Tuesday night because it was also her best road politically; if Obama wins, she still emerges as a central voice in American liberalism, replacing the ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy. And if Obama loses, as Hillary said he would during the campaign, she is blameless and the party can turn back to her without guilt in four years.

Behind the scenes Tuesday, the Obama and Clinton camps struck a tentative deal that would allow some states to cast votes in a roll call before somebody — possibly Clinton herself — cuts short the tally and asks the convention to nominate Obama by unanimous consent. This was her price for ending her historic bid for the presidency in a manner that, however messy, still left Obama in a stronger position than Kennedy left Jimmy Carter in 1980, when the Massachusetts senator extracted platform concessions and shrank from the traditional unity show at the final gavel.

But she did extract her price.

The bill came due Tuesday. The crowd. The applause. The promise of a vote Wednesday, and a speech laced 17 times by some variation of the pronoun "I."

"You never gave up," Clinton told her delegates, a phrase that so perfectly fits her. "You never gave up. And together we made history."

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打麻將爭執「出口傷人」
(星島)8月22日 星期五 05:30
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(星島日報 報道)筲箕灣 有人因打麻將爭執而「出口傷人」！三名成年人，獲好心「契媽」收留，以極廉宜租金和生活費約一千元同住筲箕灣東大街一單位。昨午三人偕一名姓林新住客打麻將時爭執，其間林手臂被咬傷，姓鍾女住客因不滿被人推撞報警，無人送院。

　　四名住客同住筲箕灣東大街一大廈住宅。上址為七十多歲、宣道會義工婆婆馮蘇妹的私人物業。她將住宅化身成廉價「安樂窩」，為有需要人士提供起居飲食服務。該單位三房一廳，客廳置有碌架牀，月租只需千多元。

　　但近日一位姓林男住客，經宣道會介紹免費遷入居住後，三十五歲姓鍾女住客對陌生人感不安，又投訴該住客常到她的房間搗亂，多番向「契媽」馮婆婆抱怨，表明「唔想有新人入嚟住」。

　　至昨午一時許，有人於上址打牌，其間鍾林二人爭執。混亂中鍾被人推撞，林的手臂被咬傷，鍾不滿報警。林拒絕送院，二人經警方調停後和解。馮婆婆聞訊趕至現場了解情況，認為事件純粹誤會，望息事寧人。

　　記者 張榮光

no gambling pls =欠下十多萬元債項無法償還

欠十多萬波債　夫妻曾爭吵 爛賭父抱三歲女燒炭死
(星島)8月22日 星期五 05:30
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(星島日報 報道)沉迷賭波的一名男子，疑因欠下十多萬元債項無法償還，在屯門 富健花園住所擁着三歲獨女燒炭，昨午其妻下班返家赫見丈夫與女兒昏迷睡房，驚惶報警，兩父女抵院同告不治，警方已將案列自殺及謀殺案處理，正調查男事主與女兒共赴黃泉的動機。

　　喪生父女分別楊國輝（三十三歲）及楊翠婷（三歲兩個月），楊兩年前與姓林（二十八歲）妻子，購入屯門龍門路富健花園第十一座九樓一單位，他任運輸散工，妻子則於區內一間便利店做兼職。

　　昨晨八時三十分，楊妻外出往便利店上班，至三時許返家，入屋後發現睡房反鎖，相信丈夫及幼女在房內，於是利用鎖匙開門，甫入房卻二人昏迷牀上，地上留下一盆已熄滅的炭灰，懷疑丈夫擁女兒尋死，馬上報警。

　　兩父女由救護員急送往屯門醫院 ，經搶救後證實返魂乏術，仵工後來將屍體舁送殮房處理。警方事後派出大批警員到場，封鎖現場單位調查，晚上將一批證物帶走。

　　楊妻協助警方調查時透露，丈夫有賭波習慣，近日欠下十多萬元債項，一直無力清還，據稱兩夫婦曾為此發生爭吵。昨晨楊妻離家上班未有異樣，亦未察覺丈夫有尋死意圖。

　　連累無辜子女極錯誤

　　屯門警區刑事總督察周德財表示，初步調查相信男事主欠債而萌生死念，至於為何禍及女兒則需深入了解，警方將案列自殺及謀殺案調查。

　　明愛向晴軒 督導主任郭志英認為任何人遇上經濟問題，都應積極尋求解決辦法，連累無辜子女是極之錯誤的決定，罪名等同謀殺；她又指不少男士礙於面子或尊嚴，拒絕向外界求助令問題難以解決，因而呼籲無論遇上那些困難，應盡早與伴侶親人商量，或向社工或志願團體求助。記者 尹敬堂