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...digg.com website this afternoon, as news of Winston's early death spread through the blogosphere, two fans bade him farewell in a way the creator of the Terminator would have appreciated. "Hasta La Vista," wrote one. Another added, "He'll be back...
...Russert, NBC News' Washington bureau chief and the tremendously influential host of Meet the Press, died suddenly Friday afternoon. He died at age 58 of an apparent heart attack; he died in Washington, D.C.; and he died - unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with him - at work...
...Russert is survived by Big Russ, whom he immortalized through his writing and broadcasts, and by his wife, writer Maureen Orth. He is also survived by former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, who announced Russert's death on MSNBC this afternoon, his voice cracking, like a father prematurely saying goodbye to a journalistic son. "I think I can invoke personal privilege to say that this news division will not be the same without his strong, clear voice," Brokaw said. "He'll be missed as he was loved, greatly...
...stopped (temporarily we're told), for those of us who are relatively high-and-dry there's a strange disconnect between what we see out our windows and what we know is going on just a few miles away. As I type from my Des Moines home on the afternoon of Friday the 13th, I see my neighbor mowing the lawn, dogs barking, kids playing, normal life. It's sunny and dry. But I've just received an e-mail that in downtown Des Moines, about 10 minutes away, a voluntary evacuation is underway as water levels...
...first, the jury deliberations seemed indecisive. After jurors began on Thursday afternoon, they cast votes about once an hour. First, they reached a vote of nine not guilty, three guilty. Then, it shifted to ten not guilty, two guilty. At one point, the breakdown shifted to seven not guilty, five guilty. This morning, jurors sent several notes: They needed an easel with a flip-board to visualize their arguments. They wanted a second VCR to review evidence more closely. "I've seen the video too many times - the first time was too many," said the lone female juror who agreed...