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Maybe. But Sharpton's supporters can hardly contain their glee when they cite their evidence that Sharpton is ascending as Jackson sinks. They point out that when rioting erupted in Cincinnati, Ohio, last month over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, black clergymen prevailed on Sharpton to cut short a fact-finding tour about slavery in Sudan and fly in to lead a rally. They claim, without offering proof, that Jackson was rebuffed when he tried to wrangle a similar invitation. "Jesse's not the go-to guy anymore," says a Sharpton admirer. Jackson, who denies scrounging...
...then chief Bush strategist Karl Rove piped up in this week's TIME magazine: The price of drilling, in terms of political capital, looked prohibitively high. And so it seemed as if the environmentalists - after watching with what must have been a perverse glee as Bush spent much of his first 90-odd days galvanizing their ranks with eco-unfriendly announcements on everything from carbon dioxide emissions to arsenic levels in drinking water...
...power and potential of the medium on prominent display for all the world to see. After all, contrary to popular myth, comic books are not just for those who remember curling up under the covers with trusty flashlight in hand, following the adventures of Superman with adolescent glee. Comic books have the power to touch readers of all ages and backgrounds. And for those of us who still get a tingly feeling in our spines whenever we see the words “Faster than a speeding bullet” on a comic page, comics will never be outgrown...
...support a bill that sets limits on lobbying for presidential pardon. This is absurdity in such a pure state that nobody except the New York Post has even bothered to touch it, instead choosing to marvel at such a rare gem with Bill O’Reilly-esque glee...
...slate. Both men are reluctant to send Milosevic and other indicted war criminals to the Hague. Both men too had troubling records of their own. Kostunica, hailed as an improvement on Milosevic, was seen in in 1998 before the election waving an AK-47 in Kosovo with an eerie glee. An improvement over Milosevic, perhaps, but the West was uncertain how much of one he represented...