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...lifetime to win one. And now I think: what a mistake it is to defer any award to a worthy achiever of any age. Two years ago, Heath Ledger's brilliantly opaque performance in Brokeback Mountain just missed getting Best Actor. He was 26 then. And now he's dead...
...have to, now that he has been found dead in an Manhattan apartment, at the unbearably young age of 28. (An autopsy on Wednesday proved inconclusive and a medical examiner may take at least 10 days to come up with a cause of death.) It's tempting to look for signs of a melancholy temperament in our brief meeting, an interview for a story in TIME. But mostly what he gave off was dissatisfaction...
...roughly 13,000 votes. What appears to have put McCain over the top was an assist from his friend and distant third - place finisher Fred Thompson, who may have siphoned off some of Huckabee's evangelical support in conservative counties. Otherwise, exit polling showed McCain and Huckabee in a dead heat for the heart of the GOP, with roughly the same amount of support from those with a positive view of the Bush administration, those without a college education and self - identified Republicans...
Still, tight as it was, the outcome is yet another rebuke to those that pronounced the McCain campaign dead last summer after a staff shake - up and budget crisis. But in an unprecedented election cycle, the question remains: is coming back from the dead enough...
Huckabee has been counted out before only to bounce back and surprise skeptics, and Saltsman points out that after Florida - which votes on Jan. 29 and where polls show Huckabee in a four-way dead heat - the campaign expects to do well in a number of the mostly Southern states that vote on February 5th, namely Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Tennessee...