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...Plouffe said that the Obama campaign was pleasantly surprised that the Democratic Party’s rules committee stripped Florida and Michigan of their delegates for scheduling early primary elections, before eventually restoring half of the states’ delegates...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Axelrod: Economy’s Fall Made Obama’s Rise | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...when she was posing for the Klaws' bondage films than it would be in the service of the Lord. In the decade after she left New York, Bettie was wed three times: to the teenager Armond Walterson, again to Billy Neal and finally to Harry Lear, a lineman for Florida Bell. Each marriage ended in divorce. But that was the least of her troubles - of the trouble she made for herself and those she lived with. Her rap sheet, as persuasively documented by Richard Foster in The Real Bettie Page, is extensive, instructive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...President announced a new push to return astronauts to the moon and eventually get them to Mars. Many skeptics saw the hand of political whiz Karl Rove in that, suspecting that the whole idea was just a bag of election year goodies for space-happy states like Florida and Texas, as well as for voters nostalgic for the glory days of Apollo. But Bush, NASA and Congress did mean business, and eventually came up with a plan under which the space station would be completed and the shuttle would be retired by 2010. That would free up about $4 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obama Want to Ground NASA's Next Moon Mission? | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Then again, even Barack Obama does a lousy impression of himself. When he called Congresswoman Illeana Ros-Lehtinen on Dec. 3, the Florida Republican hung up on the President-elect not once, but twice, apparently believing herself to be the victim of a prank call. (See the top 10 awkward moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauxbamas: The Search for a Good Obama Mimic | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...many people around the country, the excitement of Barack Obama’s win in last month’s presidential election was tempered by a sense of outrage over the passing of Proposition 8 in California, and similar anti-gay marriage legislation in Arizona and Florida. Considering this political climate, the release of director Gus Van Sant’s new film, “Milk”—which chronicles the final eight years of the life of Harvey Milk, an openly gay politician in California in the 1970s—seems appropriate...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Milk | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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