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...than a 200,000-vote cushion. His staff members knew Dade and Broward counties still hadn't reported, but their models told them they had a lead that was insurmountable. The margin would shrink, but then "it was just a matter of hanging on to the cliff by our fingers," remembers McKinnon. The problem is, "each finger kept getting stepped on." He and Ferguson nipped out for a little tequila to calm their nerves. Rove, who was wearing his phone headset all evening, was calling a statistics professor in Texas for his analysis of how the numbers were running...
...French Give Finger to Media...
...reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...paving highway BR-163. But who are we Americans to criticize Brazil? Isn't opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development a key issue in the presidential campaign? We might destroy one of the few natural habitats that we have left. We Americans can't point a finger at Brazil if we exploit our own natural preserves. ANNA LANIER Emporia, Kans...
Although Texas is by no means the only state in which such abuses can be found, it is very easy to point an accusatory finger at the public official charged with ensuring the integrity of the Texas justice system. However, from the perspective of those who are sentenced to die, it is truly unfortunate that any attack on the Texas death row has been characterized as an attack on Bush and lost amid the general election-year hubbub. Fixing a justice system that takes innocent lives should not be a political issue, as the Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan...