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During the World Series, baseball buff George Bush never wandered to the back of his press plane for a little postgame chatter. Reason: reporters had barred him, and his "off the record" sessions, from their part of the plane. It was their response to the campaign's decision to cancel press conferences for the last seven weeks of the campaign. For most pols, a blackout would be reason to haul out the peanuts and Cracker Jack, but for the slap-and-tickle candidate, this was punishment. Bush likes to gambol and gibe, because that's what baseball is too. Which...
...that all balloting is flawed. When 100 million people go to the polls, there will inevitably be errors, omissions, confusions. But we all agree--in advance--to accept the verdict of the numbers (barring fraud, of course) because we assume that, first, in the end the irregularities will cancel themselves out, and that, second, once the challenges begin, the challenges will never...
...Yale Spizzwinks were supposed to perform as well but had to cancel at the last minute, according to Laura E. Durso...
...everywhere. The idea is straightforward: stars and galaxies twinkle and shimmer because turbulent pockets of air act as weak, light-distorting lenses (heat rising from a car's hood or an asphalt parking lot causes a similar effect). With adaptive optics, though, a computer can measure the shimmer and cancel it out (see diagram...
...College Democrats reading "What Would Harry Potter Do? Vote for Al Gore!" Ummm, hi? That's my slogan. And Harry Potter, even if he was old enough, would most certainly stay away from all things involving the American electorate... Remember last week I postulated that the reason Christina Aguilera canceled all her concerts was because she was smoking too much bud? Well, a friend on the inside wrote in: "Actually, she got a new manager, and he decided to cancel appearances that were planned by his predecessor. She's not really having vocal chord problems."... I'm interviewing...