Papers pick presidential nominees

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The Independent on Sunday is among several papers to look at the Democrats and Republicans likely to throw their hats into the ring as US presidential nominees.

The paper highlights John McCain, now the most powerful Republican in the US.

The Sunday Telegraph also rakes over the mid-term elections, saying top aides asked President Bush to sack Donald Rumsfeld before polling day.

The former defence secretary oversaw a brilliant invasion of Iraq but a lousy occupation, the Sunday Times says.

Labour leadership

John Reid is back in the frame as a possible challenger to Gordon Brown.

The Sunday Express says he plans a new assault on terror and crime to show he is the man to lead a UK under threat.

The Telegraph says the home secretary is sending out signals that he has not given up plans to challenge Mr Brown for the Labour leadership.

Writing in the paper, he criticises Tory supremo David Cameron's youth crime policies in what the Telegraph says is the style of a party leader.

Tragic story

The Remembrance Day edition of the Independent is a special issue dedicated to Britain's troops.

Its striking front page carries a close-up picture of a poppy and above it the single-word headline "Remember".

The Sunday Mirror tells the tragic story of the five Stewart brothers from Leeds who all died in World War I.

Their closest surviving relative, niece Cecilia, tells the paper her uncles will not have died in vain if people today realise just now much was lost.

Academic life

This week Oxford University professors will vote on plans to transform the way it is run, the Telegraph says.

Plans spearheaded by vice-chancellor John Hood would hand Oxford's strategic control to a new council of 15 trustees, similar to a board of directors.

The proposal has led to fears in some quarters that "corporatism" would undermine academic life.

And what the Times calls five obscure academics have emerged as the ringleaders of a campaign to block it.