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    After getting knocked off last year by the "sorriest team in the SEC," South Carolina players vowed they would not overlook Vanderbilt. Maybe not, but the Gamecocks still haven't figured out how to beat the Commodores.

Calm before the storm

Inside Nibels restaurant at Surfside Beach on Thursday, tourists dined on fried shrimp and sipped sweet tea, taking in the picture window view of Surfside Pier and the sapphire blue Atlantic.

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McCain tells party, nation he’ll bring change

ST. PAUL, Minn. — John McCain, a POW turned political rebel, vowed Thursday night to vanquish the “constant partisan rancor” that grips Washington, as he launched his fall campaign for the White House.

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    ST. PAUL, Minn. — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham told Republican National Convention delegates that John McCain’s support for sending more troops to Iraq was a key test of his fitness for president.- 12:15 AM

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    The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians and drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago.- 12:35 AM

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