• Obama's age excites world - Elizabeth Sullivan
The world is still buzzing about Barack Obama. A black man elected U.S. president. A man whose genes set him astride two continents. A president-elect whose upbringing in heavily Asian-American Hawaii and in Indonesia suggests diversity isn't merely in his blood, but in his outlook.

• Sorting out McCain, Obama on the big issues - Elizabeth Sullivan
In the final days of a historic election campaign, both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have sharpened their rhetoric - about each other.

• Bailout's benefit for those in favor
With half the federal government?s historic $700 billion bailout already obligated to rescue banks and even more federal rescue money in the pipeline, the question of how billions in extra tax goodies came to be attached to the original Oct. 3 bailout has all but receded into the background.