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. -- Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph W. Giuliani was back campaigning Saturday, feeling well after what were described as flu-like symptoms had triggered an overnight hospital stay earlier in the week. "It was a severe headache, yeah, and everything has turned out fine," the former New York mayor said Saturday. "All the tests turned out 100%. As you can see, I'm very healthy."

Despite his entirely modern personal history -- including two divorces and a messy extramarital scandal with the woman who became his third wife -- there is something old-fashioned about Rudolph W. Giuliani. He almost always campaigns in a suit and tie, even in informal settings. He wears rimless spectacles that he removes when he stands before cameras, and he carries a white handkerchief, folded into a perfect square, to dab his forehead when the lights get hot.

Rudolph W. Giuliani will wed his companion, Judith Nathan, on May 24 in the ex-mayor's old home, Gracie Mansion, and his successor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, will perform the rite. It will be a first for Bloomberg, who is making an exception from his policy of not performing weddings. Giuliani regularly officiated at weddings while mayor.

No letup in the last hours After Iowa, change is in the air in New Hampshire. In the Democratic primary, Barack Obama's emphasis on change has suddenly made him the candidate to beat. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee has a tall order in replicating his win, but this has forced Mitt Romney to alter his tactics and helped revive John McCain's chances.

As his Republican rivals campaigned in snowy Michigan, Rudolph W. Giuliani addressed voters at two events in balmy Florida on Saturday, continuing his tropical strategy of betting everything on a win here. Despite news this week that his campaign coffers have gotten shallow, Giuliani appeared upbeat as he sought to sway voters in two cities on the Gulf of Mexico coast. Giuliani often mocked the Democratic candidates and repeatedly returned to his well-worn topic of the Sept.

For an hour Monday, Rudolph W. Giuliani passionately made his case to voters seated in the Shell Point retirement community chapel. He talked of tax cuts and terrorist attacks, of building up the military and cracking down on illegal immigration. But in the end, he didn't seem to close the deal. Dozens of the more than 1,000 who attended the town hall event took off before Giuliani finished his speech, leaving rows of seats empty.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain raised more than $1 million Tuesday on rival Rudolph W. Giuliani's turf and picked up the endorsement of the former New York mayor's longtime nemesis. Former Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.) switched his allegiance in the presidential race from former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, who abandoned his bid Tuesday, to McCain. D'Amato has long been at odds with Giuliani.

After dominating the Republican presidential race for nearly a year, Rudolph W. Giuliani has faced nothing but defeat in the opening contests: He finished fourth in New Hampshire and sixth in Iowa, Michigan, Nevada and South Carolina. With time running short, no sign of a turnaround has emerged. He has lost his front-runner's perch in California, a new Field Poll has found. Other surveys show sharp drops for Giuliani in Florida, New Jersey and New York, his home state.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Rudolph W. Giuliani emerged from the ash plumes of the ruined World Trade Center as much an icon as the fallen towers. His drawn face was coated in concrete dust. His painstaking words were freighted with the unimaginable. "There were so many people around, so many problems," Giuliani recalled in his autobiography. The counting of the dead had not begun, and he had to publicly reckon with the disaster's human toll.

On June 22, 2004, Rudolph W. Giuliani made a bold promise in the fight against terrorism. The former New York mayor told reporters that his newest business venture, called Bio-ONE, would swiftly eliminate deadly anthrax from a tabloid newspaper office. The site still stood padlocked, more than 2 1/2 years after the worst biological terrorism attack in U.S. history. "You will see me walk through those doors," pledged Giuliani, who is now seeking the Republican presidential nomination.