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...absentee ballots, as vulnerable to hackers. But Michigan Democrats point out that their system is different, with added safeguards that include multiple firewalls. Still, seven of the nine Democrats initially in the primary race filed objections to Michigan's system, saying it could skew the voting. Charges the Rev. Edgar Vann, a Detroit Baptist leader: "The system discriminates against older African-American voters [with] no access to the Internet." It could affect the outcome in another way, since many voters will have cast their ballots early--before Dean's ebullient speech in Iowa and John Kerry's recent surge. That...
...heap. Dickens wrote best-selling novels, but they weren't considered "commercial" or "popular" or "your-euphemism-here." They were just novels. No one looked down on Scott and Tennyson and Stowe for being wildly successful. No one got all embarrassed when they were caught reading the new Edgar Allan Poe over lunch...
...first-place bout with No. 18 Frank Edgar of Clarion, Meltzer started the match off strongly. However, Meltzer made a mistake, allowing Edgar to score a one-point escape and a two-point take-down...
...problem with many J.F.K. documentaries is that the biography overwhelms the history, but Revealed does a good job of connecting the two. J.F.K. reappointed J. Edgar Hoover, for instance, because the FBI director kept an all-the-President's-women file, and his illnesses--colitis, prostatitis, Addison's disease, back pain, a cholesterol level of more than 400--taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show...
...character's accent. "But the vast majority of it is reading," he says, guiding me to a sagging bookcase. "You've got Sailing for Dummies ..." He laughs, but there it is, next to several dozen more sophisticated volumes on naval history, one of which--Nelson: Love & Fame, by Edgar Vincent--is almost in tatters. Admiral Nelson is mentioned only briefly in the film, yet Crowe highlighted and Post-it-noted the text like a grad student. "I wanted to have an intimate knowledge about Nelson," he says. "I wanted to feel the sense of him, because Jack served with...