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...NASA's "Freak Out Congress into Giving Us a Bigger Budget" drive b) The Las Vegas 51s Triple-A baseball team, named after Area 51 c) Dick Gephardt's '04 presidential campaign d) A Grateful Dead reunion tour...
...this victory holds up, President Bush will now be a more ordinary freak of history, just one of three winners who lost the popular vote. Here's his mandate: Seven Justices could say confidently that the counting begun Saturday failed on "equal protection" grounds, no matter when it was supposed to finish. That which neither campaign had asked for - a fair, sensible statewide undervote count lasting past Dec. 12 - the Florida Supreme Court showed neither the right nor the skill to grant. Not with time running short. Bush's advantage, headed into a delicate presidency, is that most of America...
...engineer in the hands of South American radicals. The voice on the other end demands an exorbitant sum of money. Thorne calmly refuses, offering a much lower amount, and the dialogue abrutply ends with the chilling threat that Bowman is as good as dead. As the surrounding family members freak out, Thorne brushes them off, saying "You'll get used to that. It's all part of the game...
...What Women Want," Gibson plays an ad-agency executive whose brain gets rewired during a freak bathroom accident. Suddenly he can hear what women are thinking; hilarity and personal growth ensue. Before the film's third act - before he falls for his new boss (Hunt) and learns to relate to his teenage daughter (Ashley Johnson) - Gibson sends himself up. The character is a charming but politically incorrect brute, a role that Gibson has played onscreen and off throughout his career. A few years back, he got trounced by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation after a particularly nasty comment...
...control freak about my music collection, and staying on top of it is getting harder and harder. It was bad enough, a couple of years ago, trying to alphabetize a couple of hundred CDs. But then, like a lot of kids my age, I started doing Napster. Seven hundred downloads later, my collection is hopelessly Balkanized. To listen to a Moby track, I can stick a CD on the stereo. But to hear the remix, I have to run downstairs, fire up the PC and select the right MP3. I tried ripping all my CDs onto my computer...