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...ambition, though at first he could not have given a name to his goal or, as he also admitted, define it with any accuracy. "I don't know that I've any style at all," he once told an interviewer. "I just patterned myself on a combination of 'Jack Buchanan [a debonair English musical-comedy star of the '20s and '30s], Noël Coward and Rex Harrison. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point." In any event, Grant apparently felt that...
...first decisions Nancy Pelosi had to make after she was sworn in as Speaker of the House was one of the most basic in a democracy: whether to seat the state-certified winner of an election. Vern Buchanan, a wealthy Republican car dealer, was declared the victor of the House election in Florida's 13th District by 369 votes in November. But 18,000 voters from a heavily Democratic county somehow didn't register a choice in that particular race, and Buchanan's opponent, Christine Jennings, claims their votes were swallowed up by paperless electronic-voting machines. Jennings has brought...
Thirty-five of the 36 confirmed attendees at the biennial conference—which brings together newly elected Congressional members to learn about effective lawmaking and leadership—are Democrats. The lone Republican planning to attend is Vernon “Vern” Buchanan of Florida, who picked up Katherine Harris’ vacated House seat, according to the Institute of Politics (IOP) list of participants...
...confirmed Republican in attendance, Buchanan, did not return requests for comment yesterday...
Looks as if Florida has done it again. Just when the race to replace President George W. Bush's 2000-election confidant Katherine Harris in the 13th District had swung to Republican Vern Buchanan--by a mere 369 votes--his Democratic challenger, Christine Jennings, last week filed a lawsuit claiming that voting machines had failed to register 18,000 ballots. But Jennings isn't the only candidate for whom concession is taboo. Here's a look at some of this year's most bizarre and hotly contested elections around the world...