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...this particular December evening, Wilkinson is astounded by what he sees - something of a finals crunch among his famo-seekers. Having failed at "legitimate fame," he says, many students are desperate for anything to generate traffic and get a last-minute bump to influence their grades. One popular tactic: posting short videos of scantily-clad women, all bearing suggestive titles...
...basic premise of the game is that designated killers bump off cops with a wink, while remaining undetected. When the lights are dimmed, killers work together using a sign language of nods and winks to select a victim. The "police" then try to guess their identity, which is confirmed or denied by the judge. When the lights are turned back up, each contestant speaks either to defend themselves or accuse others before a vote eliminates one suspect. In subsequent rounds more players are voted off until no civilians or killers remain. The first to eliminate all members of the other...
...YouTube debate. "You notice I didn't jump in the middle of it, I was more than willing to stand back and enjoy the show," said Huckabee, who then added a NASCAR analogy. "When you've got several cars on the track and to get to bumping each other, there's a good chance that one or both of them are going to run or bump each other off the track or disable their vehicles. What you want to do is to make sure you're not in the path of the wreck when it happens because your chance...
...despite our social consciences, smokers are constantly villainized. Miramax and Touchstone, both subsidiaries of Disney, are now discouraged to include “depictions of cigarette smoking” in their movies. (This is the same Miramax that distributed Pulp Fiction.) A depiction of smoking can now bump up a movie from...
...Thompson's numbers in Iowa have actually inched up since he started broadcasting ads in the state; in the ABC/Washington Post Iowa poll, he ranks third with 16%, slightly ahead of Giuliani. And the campaign is hoping for a similar bump in South Carolina, the state Thompson almost certainly has to win to have any chance of becoming the nominee. "This thing is wide open, everyone's numbers are soft," says one Thompson aide optimistically. But then the aide ads, "I do think this Huckabee thing is real. If Huckabee wins Iowa, that changes things dramatically...