In it she tells her husband about their three children, and some "perfectly beautiful" if melancholy feelings that they had expressed about the war.
Mr. Romney's defeat in Iowa only underlined concerns that many Republicans had expressed about him, while the success of Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, gave rise to new worries among the Republican establishment.
That last headline, from The New York Post, referred to concerns that the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, had expressed about the mayor's Senate campaign, concerns that are said to be shared by other state Republican leaders.
Any confidence that she or her supporters had expressed about an easy march to the nomination was erased when Mr. Obama posted his numbers on The Chicago Tribune Web site.
Despite the skepticism that Bush and his team had expressed about Guantánamo, the President had, by placing the nation's most notorious terrorist suspects there, given the detention facility a new vote of confidence.
"Globalization is necessary, but we need to respect the roots of cycling," the Tour president, Christian Prudhomme, said in March, echoing sentiments that many had expressed about World Series Cycling.
