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Kerry Persona: Hard-driving, competitive By NANCY BENAC The Associated Press 7/21/2004, 3:17 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Vietnam, anti-war protests, the rigor of politics were still years in the future. In 1963, John Kerry was just a college kid looking for adventure on a summer abroad. Traveling on better wheels than most, there were Kerry and a buddy exploring Europe in a low-slung Austin Healy, racing against an Alfa Romeo on the twisting road to Nice, chasing a Porsche across Italy. The gendarmes caught him in Monte Carlo: Kerry, so intent on retracing the course of the Grand Prix that...

Kerry to address Urban League during Michigan visit The Associated Press 7/14/2004, 7:30 a.m. ET DETROIT (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry plans to travel to Michigan to address the Urban League next week. Kerry's recent visits to the state included last month's $1 million fund-raiser, where the U.S. senator from Massachusetts attacked Bush's economic performance and touted his own job-creation proposals. Word of Kerry's planned July 22 stop came amid a flurry of presidential campaign activity in Michigan. President Bush was in Michigan on Tuesday, telling an Upper Peninsula crowd his economic policies are bringing prosperity and jobs...

Blanchard says Kerry state director to be named soon By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press 6/1/2004, 6:50 p.m. ET LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has tentatively scheduled another Michigan bus tour for June 16-17 and on Tuesday unveiled new ads to run in Michigan and other key states. But he has yet to name a state director to run his campaign here. Former Gov. James Blanchard, a Kerry campaign adviser in Michigan, said an announcement should come in the next two or three days. He has been pushing for someone to be named for...

A rally was held this morning at Dupont Circle by some of the anti-capitalist protesters inundating DC today. After the rally, the group began walking peacefully on Connecticut Avenue toward Farragut Square at 18th and K Streets, N.W. When the group reached the block between L and K Streets, they stopped. Some of the protesters formed smaller groups to walk in circles at the four corners of the intersections, while others decided to drop down to the ground (execute a die-in) at the midpoint of the block in front of the Greater Atlantic Bank. I spoke to an undercover officer...

"What the hell happened to me?!"