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It may sound quite sensible to require Americans to show a photo ID before stepping into a voting booth. But as a growing number of states push to require such IDs, the move is drawing opposition from critics who see it as an effort to disenfranchise the poorest--and presumably most Democratic--voters. Five states today require a photo ID at the polls (Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, South Carolina and South Dakota), and seven more have considered such a requirement this year. In the past two weeks alone, photo-ID bills have been signed into law in Georgia and Indiana; killed...
...volunteer at school, chaperone field trips and gossip with other moms at the playground. "I've learned that I can't be superwoman, so we eat more take-out dinners and the laundry piles up." But laundry, she points out, "is not a glass ball." --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
West 57th, named for the Manhattan street where CBS News is based, establishes its pace in the briskly edited montage that opens each show. Phone ringing in a CBS control booth. Someone shouting something about a tape not rolling. Lots of quick camera cuts showing hubbub in the booth spliced with shots from the week's stories. The thumping music swells into a jazzy roar as Correspondent Jane Wallace dashes up a flight of stairs. The other three correspondents (Bob Sirott, Meredith Vieira, John Ferrugia) are presented in quick succession, getting out of chairs and talking on phones...
...words belong to Paul Booth, a former Army officer fragged by one of his own men in Viet Nam. He is mean-spirited and abusive. His wife Liz is an asthmatic heiress whose money is tied up in a complex trust fund. She is also the captive audience of a talky geologist named McCandless, who has rented his house to the Booths...
...eavesdropping reader gets an earful of the couple's private life. There is much about debts and the obstacles that keep Paul from success. There is something about injuries that Liz suffered in a plane crash and oblique details about an international business deal with geopolitical implications. Booth is in public relations. His clients include the Rev. Elton Ude, founder of the Wayne Fickert Bible College and leader of an evangelical movement in Africa, and a mining company interested in mineral deposits in the area where Ude is harvesting souls. A U.S. Senator is also involved, as is McCandless...