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This story line is not farfetched. When the nation goes to the polls Nov. 2, Coloradans will also vote on Amendment 36. As of today, Colorado, like 47 other states and the District of Columbia, awards electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis. (Nebraska and Maine give two votes to the statewide winner and one to the winner in each congressional district, though in practice neither has ever split its allotment.) Amendment 36, which would take effect immediately, would divvy up Colorado's electoral votes based on the percentage of votes each candidate wins in the state...
...movie-star son George has helped raise money, but could Nick Clooney's celebrity be as much a liability as an asset in the race for Kentucky's conservative Fourth District? "[It's] Hollywood vs. the Heartland," business consultant Geoff Davis bellows on the stump. The charge of being an outsider doesn't stick easily to former newscaster Clooney, whose family has lived in the area for five generations. But if Davis brands him as too liberal on social issues, Clooney may feel like an outsider come Election...
Shamil Basayev's home village of Dyshne-Vedeno stretches for a kilometer or two along a dusty road in the mountainous Vedeno district of Chechnya, 55 km southeast of the capital, Grozny. Cattle and sheep graze around the village, and the local cream is fresh and delicious. If the villagers are right, Russia's most-wanted man is hiding only a few kilometers away. Perhaps in the hamlet of Dargo, about 10 km to the east; or in Ersanoi, just up the road; or even right here in Dyshne-Vedeno itself, within sight of the ruins of his once sumptuous...
...victim and his friends were unarmed, so it would have been reasonable for the jury to think Pring-Wilson’s use of a knife to strike repeated and deadly blows to the chest was…excessive force,” said Abramson, a former Middlesex assistant district attorney...
...District Judge Thomas Hogan found Cooper in contempt of court on Wednesday, for the second time, for refusing to testify. (Cooper?s first contempt citation was rescinded when he gave limited information to prosecutors after a source, Lewis I. ?Scooter? Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, authorized him and several other journalists to discuss their confidential conversations.) Miller was found in contempt last week. She and Cooper, citing the need for journalists to be able to protect their sources, are appealing the rulings jointly, but no decision is expected from the appeals court until mid-to-late...