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Bush's nomination of Roberts could prove the adage that even a blind hog occasionally stumbles across an acorn...
...found the water, here's a tip: stay out of it. Each day, 450,000 cu m of raw semi-filtered sewage?the same volume as 200 Olympic-size full swimming pools?is flushed into the harbor. Pretty much the only things that live there are rabbitfish and ponyfish, acorn barnacles, green-lipped mussels, and bacteria...
...registered voter had moved without leaving a phone number or forwarding address. "We don't bring 300 kids from Ohio State University into the inner city of Columbus," says David Leland, national director of Project Vote, a nonpartisan arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which claims it has registered more than 50,000 voters in the Columbus area. "I don't know that they have the same credibility, and they're not as effective" as community activists, says Leland. Adds a top Republican official: "They are registering people who historically don't vote...
...amiable guy who still liked to pick a fight. But Republicans of all stripes wanted a restoration so badly, the moderates persuaded themselves they could trust the Bush brand, trust that 43 would turn out like 41: diplomatic in foreign policy, pragmatic at home. It turns out that the acorn had landed some ways from the tree...
Disney's new animated movie, Chicken Little, picks up where the classic children's tale leaves off. CHICKEN LITTLE, who was struck by an errant acorn, has discovered that his crusade to tell the king "the sky is falling" was wrongheaded. The movie chronicles the exploits of the now infamous Little, hounded by the media, as he tries to redeem himself. Scrubs' Zach Braff voices the main character--the cast also includes Joan Cusack, Garry Marshall, Amy Sedaris and Steve Zahn--and says the recording sessions have been "so hilarious. We've been ad-libbing and improvising together." That bodes...