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...pundits and politicos are already wondering if Crist, 51, plans to channel his popularity into his own presidential bid some day. He says no candidate has approached him about a possible vice president spot on a ticket. And after a busy year in which he won reinstatement of ex-convict voter rights, ditched the state's controversial touch-screen voting machines, spearheaded a merit pay plan for Florida teachers and convened a major global warming summit in Miami, he insists he's not even thinking about...
...know yet know why the jury decided not to convict anyone in this case. "It was a very difficult case with a lot of evidence," jury foreman Jeffrey Agron, a school principal, told the Miami Herald. "People see evidence in different ways. There were different takes that people had." It's possible that jurors were struggling with the very thing that makes the Liberty City case so typical of the Justice Department's war on terrorism: it feels phony...
...there are Australian traits that do, indisputably, come down to modern Australia from the vanished days of the bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of elitism. Mateship--essentially, male bonding--began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that...
...video for Canadian indie band Apostle of Hustle’s “Cheap Like Sebastien” raises some interesting questions. Who knew frontman Andrew Whiteman could dance? And doesn’t he kind of look like an ex-convict? The answers don’t really matter. For those who are entertained by Buddhist monks and brief-wearing Neanderthals, for those amused by priests rocking out to strobe lights and Native Americans dancing with dead animals (may they rest in peace), for all those who simply wonder why Sebastien is so cheap: This is the video...
...Cogan, a part-time real estate broker, contends that Bill and Hillary Clinton defrauded businessman Peter Paul into footing the almost $2 million bill for a Clinton fundraiser in August 2000. Cogan’s film says Bill Clinton promised he would enter into business with Paul, a former convict for cocaine possession, after leaving the White House...