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• Video: Inside the T.C. Marathon
  Join Star Tribune's Bob Timmons - that's him in the blue - for an inside look at the Twin Cities Marathon. Timmons finished in 3 hours, 48 minutes.
  Oct 6, 2008
• Project: Project: Puck dreams
  At 15, Nick Mattson of Chanhassen has a chance to study with the elite USA Hockey team in Michigan. But it means leaving his parents, his friends and everything familiar.
  Mar 12, 2008
• Slide show: Sights and sounds of First Avenue
  From the guy stocking beer to the performers and concert-goers we spent 24 hours at the famous Greyhound bus station-turned-music venue.
  Jan 17, 2008
• Faces behind the race
  

  SECOND OF TWO PARTS

  For pundits, analyzing Republican presidential politics in 2007 provided a lesson in humility. Just when the professional political soothsayers had decided that John McCain, or Rudy Giuliani, or Fred Thompson, or Mitt Romney was likely to emerge as the party's standard-bearer, along would come a different name at or near the top of a credible poll. In December in Iowa, along came Mike Huckabee. The emergence of the former governor of Arkansas as the front-runner in the Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll gave the Star Tribune Editorial Board reason to add one more chair at the table we'd set for prominent Minnesota backers of the leading Republican candidates. On Dec. 18, five Minnesota surrogates gathered to share their reasons for backing their candidate of choice. The lineup: former Senate Minority Leader Duane Benson, for Mike Huckabee; former Minneapolis City Council member and retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Denny Schulstad, for John McCain; former gubernatorial candidate and businessman Wheelock Whitney, for Rudy Giuliani; businessman and former state GOP executive director Tony Sutton, for Mitt Romney, and House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, for Fred Thompson. Here are excerpts of their exchange:

  KEY STRENGTH

  
  Dec 29, 2007
• Slide show: The chance to keep skating -- in Russia
  Four U.S. women, one a former Gopher, are playing for the Tornado, a professional women's hockey team in Russia.
  Dec 15, 2007
• Juke Joint: Po’ Monkey’s Lounge, Merigold, Miss.
  A stream of red taillights cuts through dark cotton fields. Dust kicks up on a tired gravel road. A string of lights illuminates a former sharecropper shack. It must be Thursday night in Merigold, Miss., the one night a week that Po’ Monkey’s Lounge opens for business.
  Dec 1, 2007
• Slide show: Watching her step
  Even as the Republicans lost Congress, Michele Bachmann was a GOP success. Her first six months have been a lesson in handling the political spotlight.
  Jul 20, 2007
• Slide show: The Blues
  
  Apr 6, 2007