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...treasure trove for those hungry for more data on a public figure about whom little is known in the lower 48. No one will be able to close it without marveling at Palin's instant ascent to international fame. Keep in mind that it's only been a dozen years since she won her first election, becoming Wasilla's mayor by a vote of 651 to 440. A little more is now at stake...
...photos of the dozen most important cars of all time here.) (Check out the 50 worst cars of all time here...
...original script, by Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man), actually has an idea that hasn't been truncheoned to death in a zillion other movies: What if a cop were a serial killer? A peace officer certainly has motive, means and opportunity to knock off a dozen or so malefactors who probably deserve to die but have escaped conviction. The cop could truly believe that killing them is nothing less than righteous. He might think of himself as De Niro's Travis Bickle did in Taxi Driver, using his gun to wash the New York streets clean of their wretched refuse...
Thursday we bought tons of water, peanut butter, canned beans, tuna and fruit. And ice. Mom boiled a couple dozen eggs. This ain't our first rodeo, as we say here in Texas. My family lived through Hurricane Alicia in 1983, when I was just a kid. But Ike seems bigger and a bit scarier. Maybe because I'm older and know better...
...about the matter. Just after Monegan's firing, she said that "never was there any pressure put on Commissioner Monegan to hire or fire anybody." A month later, though, she held a surprise press conference, which revealed that key staffers and even her husband had made more than two dozen contacts with Monegan about Wooten, contacts she insists she hadn't known about. It turns out an increasingly wary state police had recorded one of those conversations, which is fairly explicit in its intent. The call, from Palin ally Frank Bailey to a state trooper, intimates that Palin was otherwise...