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...Florida debacle, a still fresh memory in 2004, was more than a neutral foul-up to Gore supporters. The premature call for Bush was first made at Fox News, where Bush's cousin John Ellis was analyzing exit polls. That became the model for the liberals' pro-Bush-bias narrative: a core of Bushite media was pushing G.O.P. spin, attacks and talking points, and cowing the mainstream media into running with it. "The media are a kind of prisoner of the fear of being labeled liberal," says Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? "This gives the right enormous license...
...casting a vote for Bush. The voters in Indiana and Ohio wouldn’t realize that we would get hit the hardest, that much of the job loss is from our factories, the outsourcing from our states. All the Battle Creek city positions would go Republican, and my cousin, who served a dedicated term as vice-chair of the county commission would squeak out a 104-vote victory. Never mind that his opponent was a late replacement with little time to campaign while he went to every door in his district, the conservative vote would come out strong...
...Garment District is the cooler, racier cousin of Boston Costume. Before entering, take a deep breath—this shop is not for the faint-hearted. The second floor is packed with racks of clothing, from intricate, multi-piece expensive costumes to vintage shirts, shoes and tacky pearl necklaces. And for all the wannabe bio concentrators, The Garment District’s selection of lab coats will make your heart pound. Shopping at The Garment District without direction is chaotic. With an idea in mind, however, this is the best place to piece together the crazy costume of your dreams
...monopoly on the telecommunications sector, and they don’t appreciate Internet service providers entering into their business arena and interrupting their revenue streams. At first, this seems like a typical third-world-corrupt-government sort of challenge: Because the prime minister’s third cousin owns the phone company, say, competitors find their leases suddenly expiring and their power being shut off without explanation...
...species, which Norell and co-discoverer Xing Xu of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology named Mei long, from the Chinese for "soundly sleeping dragon." But the specimen, dating to between 128 million and 139 million years ago, is clearly an early troodontid, an evolutionary cousin of tyrannosaurs...