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Republicans argued, so can we. But the G.O.P.'s march turned into a mob. The screaming, the pounding on doors and the alleged physical assaults on Democrats suddenly made a bemused public queasy. "I'm all for anyone's right to protest," says Miami-Dade Democratic chairman Joe Geller, who had to have a police escort. "These were Brownshirt tactics...
...Republicans argued, so can we. But the GOP's march turned into a mob. The screaming, the pounding on doors and the alleged physical assaults on Democrats suddenly made a bemused public queasy. "I'm all for anyone's right to protest," says Miami-Dade Democratic chairman Joe Geller, who had to have a police escort. "These were Brownshirt tactics." It was the Dade vote counters, however, who provoked the Republican machine. Seemingly oblivious to GOP anger over the Florida Supreme Court ruling to allow manual recounts, the canvassing board tried an end run around the court's Sunday deadline...
...What the world watched was a GOP melee. When Geller walked out of the room with a sample ballot, the crowd accused him of stealing a real one and responded as if he had just nabbed a baby for its organs. Geller says he was pushed by two dozen protesters screaming, "I'm gonna take you down!" Luis Rosero, a Democratic observer, claims he was punched and kicked. Republicans dispute the charges, but video cameras caught scenes of activism that had morphed into menace. The organizers in the RV outside, who GOP protesters have told TIME were led by hardball...
...arriving. They include YES Yoko Ono (Abrams; 352 pages; $60) by Alexandra Munroe with Jon Hendricks, a survey, complete with a CD by Ono and her son Sean Lennon; Paul McCartney Paintings (Bulfinch; 146 pages; $50), which features the cute Beatle's artwork; and In My Life by Debbie Geller (St. Martin's; 208 pages; $24.95), a biography of Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager...
...Hall and O.J. Simpson, and the school is still standing. Jackson's appearance, which will take place at the Oxford Union in February, was brokered by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Oxford alum, author of Kosher Sex and frequent Howard Stern radio guest. The two were introduced through mutual friend Uri Geller, famous bender of spoons. "I went to meet him, and, honestly, I fell in love with him," says Boteach. "He truly wants to restore children to the center of their parents' lives." The Oxford Union says, "We are convinced this will be received with great enthusiasm by all our membership...