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During the Florida recount fiasco, which Tallahassee Republicans call "the recent unpleasantness," national pundits consigned Governor Jeb Bush to the chad heap of history. They clucked last month when he fought with his brother the President over oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast (W. wants to; Jeb does not). And they dished last week when Jeb denounced the "sickening" (and apparently unfounded) rumor that he'd had an affair with a state official, once a Playboy bunny...
...films with titles like A Few Good Men, Top Gun and The Firm. Now he's filed a $100 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against a porn star who may or may not have told a French magazine that Cruise was his lover. According to the suit, CHAD SLATER, who performs under the name Kyle Bradford, told Actustar that he had "a continuing homosexual affair with Tom Cruise and that this affair was discovered by Mr. Cruise's wife, leading to their divorce." Slater issued a complete denial. "I have never been to France, I have never spoken...
...shame worked wonders on getting state legislators to cut that check, just think of how officials feel in the sinkhole's epicenter - Palm Beach County, of "butterfly ballot" and "hanging chad" fame. The county will receive $1.9 million from the state to replace those disco-era Votomatics with shiny new optical-scan machines (think lottery ticket machines...
...Today/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots shows that if the standard that Al Gore advocated had been used - if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as a vote - George W. Bush would have won Florida, all 67 counties, by 1,665 votes, more than triple his official 537-vote margin...
FOILED FEB. 7, 2001 Fort Collins, Colo. Just 66 miles from Littleton, Chad Meiniger, 15, and Alexander Vukodinovich and Scott Parent, both 14, were allegedly hatching an elaborate plan to "redo Columbine." Police were tipped off by two female classmates of the boys, who said they had overhead them plotting. Officers say they found a weapons cache, ammunition and sketches of the school...