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...salt in Democrats' wounds, launching ads featuring Hillary supporters defecting to Team McCain and hosting a "Happy Hour for Hillary" to woo her supporters to the Republican side. On Monday the party held a press conference featuring Ohio Democratic activist Cynthia Ruccia denouncing Barack Obama for having a "complete blind spot where women are concerned...
...girl. After collapsing in Athens, Emmons retreated to a bar with his buddies. He needed to drown his sorrows. A Czech shooter, Katerina Kurkova, came up to Emmons to offer condolences. "The way he handled that loss seemed very cool to me," Katerina, 24, says. "And I'm not blind. He's pretty cute." They started spending more time together on the shooting circuit and got married last summer...
...alleged abuses of power in office. League officials countered that Thaksin had never been convicted of a crime. But as Thaksin's trials proceed without him, that may change. Richard Scudamore, the Premier League chief executive, was recently quoted in The Guardian as saying: "We will not turn a blind eye to issues of a serious nature." Thaksin looks like he might be called on to play another round of defense...
...impact of thousands upon thousands of dives has left many Chinese divers with permanent eye injuries. After detaching a retina, Hu Jia, a Chinese gold medalist in Athens, told the Chinese press that he would nonetheless dedicate himself to striking gold in Beijing "unless my eyes are really blind." He ended up missing the 2008 Olympic squad because of injury...
...insular and snooty French oenophile establishment. So he sets out to prove that offerings from other countries, which he unsuccessfully stocks, can equal those of the previously unchallenged French vintages. This leads him to California's Napa Valley, where he seeks wines that might fare well in a blind tasting he plans to stage in France. There he finds, among other good wines, a Chardonnay bottled by cranky Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) at his debt-ridden family winery. You probably don't need a spoiler alert to see where this tale is going - us against them, the hick underdogs...