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There is at least one conclusion to be drawn at this point in the presidential race: people love to get creative with poster board and sticks. Florida's zealous protesters have occupied street corners since Nov. 8, and their signs have been getting progressively craftier and goofier. By last Friday, rabble rousers even besieged the front porch of the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, there is the occasional misspelling, e.g., WINNERS NOT WINERS. And in our strictly nonpartisan view, Republicans seem to be winning the poster...
...deaths so coincidentally staged they seem sure to be the stuff of urban legend. And yet, as the unidentified narrator assures, they are absolute fact. "These strange things happen all the time," he offers with an invisible smirk. Inventive and charmingly frank as this introduction is, what's even craftier is that no such odd confluence of circumstance proceeds to occur in any one of the eight intersecting storylines that make up the rest of the film. In fact, in all three, thoroughly engaging hours, it's amazing to note that almost nothing happens...
...last week that Microsoft had settled one round of its continuing dispute with the Federal Government--by agreeing to let PC makers remove the icon for the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer, from their machines' desktops--looked like abject capitulation. But as usual, the closer you look, the craftier the CEO's reasoning seems...
...breakers after winning the first set 6-1. She blames mostly her shotmaking, not her nerves. "If I had had a backhand down the line instead of only crosscourt," she says, "I would have won two more French Opens." In her mind, she is getting better -- craftier at her game plan, defter at her execution. On court, the story is the same old sad one, the fluttering fall of an autumn leaf, glinting brightly and waving in the wind, yet fated to come to earth...
...quicker, craftier B.C. squad (23-7, 12-4) soon took charge, tallying four unanswered goals to defeat...