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WORLD BRIEFING Obama and Romney vie for support backers who were already lined up on the two sides of the super-heated race were looking for a scrappy face- off. Iowa (AP) — One day after their contentious, finger- pointing debate, President Barack Obama and Repub- lican Mitt Romney vied aggressively for the support of women voters Wednes- day, as they and their run- ning mates charged across nearly a half-dozen battle- ground states in the close race for the White House with 20 days to run. Not even Republicans disputed that Obama's debate performance was much stronger than the list- less showing two weeks earlier that helped spark a rise in the polls for Romney. The two rivals meet one more time, next Monday in Florida. from women MOUNT VERNON, The first post-debate polls were divided, some saying Romney won, others finding Obama did. At least some of the voters who asked the questions in the town-hall style encounter remained uncommitted. ''If Gov. Romney could actual- ly provide the jobs, that would be a good thing because we really need them,'' said Nina Gonzalez, a 2008 Obama voter, neatly summarizing the uncertain- ty confronting voters in a slow-growth, high-unem- ployment economy. Obama wore a pink wristband to show support for Breast Cancer Aware- ness Month as he cam- paigned in Iowa and then Ohio, and reminded his audience that the first legis- lation he signed after becoming president made it easier for women to take pay grievances to court. Romney took no posi- tion on that bill when it passed Congress, and his campaign says he would not seek its repeal. But Obama chided him, saying, ''That shouldn't be a complicated question. Equal pay for equal work.'' More fun to watch, but was it ''In the world of 'The Real Housewives,' every- body needs to turn over a table from time to time,'' said Evan Cornog, dean of the Communications School at Hofstra Universi- ty, where Tuesday night's debate took place. ''How good that is for the republic, I don't know.'' The presidency isn't a person, it's an institution. And Americans traditional- ly expect presidents seeking re-election to maintain a certain level of decorum. Challengers get more lee- way but still are expected to pay deference to the office of chief executive, if not to the man. Maybe that tradi- tion is doomed in a conflict- addicted popular culture where even television cook- ing shows are ''throw- downs.'' Can the notion of the dignity of office survive the era of flash analysis, when a phrase like ''binders full of women'' launches a thou- sand Internet jokes — while the debate's still in progress — and campaigns spin the matchup into attack ads within hours? Romney rematch was squirm-inducing. But shed- ding some dignity probably won't cost the candidates much. Since both President Barack Obama and chal- lenger Mitt Romney came out swinging, neither was likely to claim a decisive advantage among viewers who thought the debate smacked of the wrong type of reality TV. And many presidential? WASHINGTON (AP) — This is presidential? They bicker, interrupt, talk over the moderator. To some, the Obama- Reserve NEW YORK (AP) — A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said. Feds: 1 arrested in plot to attack Federal Hurry! Reservations are filling FAST! Perhaps the best bundled business promotion package in the North State! TV Select Magazine 2013 ADVERTISING PRESENTATION CALLS START Monday, October 22 Sales Appointments available MON 10/22 – FRI 11/2 Appointment Reservations Recommended! 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''The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences.'' year-old Nafis — armed with a cellphone he believed was rigged as a detonator — after he made several attempts to blow up the bomb inside a vehicle parked next to the Federal Reserve, the complaint said. Authorities emphasized that the plot never posed an actual risk. However, they claimed the case demon- strated the value of using sting operations to neutral- ize young extremists eager to harm Americans. ''Attempting to destroy a Agents grabbed the 21- Violent crimes up by 18 percent WASHINGTON (AP) Justice Statistics report- ed Wednesday that the increase in the number of violent crimes was the result of an upward swing in simple assaults, which rose 22 percent, from 4 million in 2010 to 5 million last year. The incidence of rape, sexual assault and rob- bery remained largely unchanged, as did seri- ous violent crime involving weapons or injury. — Violent crimes unex- pectedly jumped 18 per- cent last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a decade. But academic experts said the new government data fall short of signal- ing a reversal of the long decline in crime. The U.S. Bureau of Property crimes were up 11 percent in 2011, from 15.4 million in 2010 to 17 million, according to the bureau's annual national crime victimization survey. Household burglaries rose 14 percent, from 3.2 million to 3.6 million. The number of thefts jumped by 10 percent, from 11.6 million to 12.8 million. 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