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...When Jon Tester was 9 years old, he lost the middle three fingers of his left hand in a meat grinder. The only immediate impact of the accident, he says, was that "I couldn't play the saxophone and had to learn the trumpet, and I took a lot of crap from my schoolmates." There was a long-term political benefit, however: Tester, who is the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Montana, has the most distinctive hand wave in American politics, a thumb-and-pinkie hook-'em-horns waggle. Indeed, Tester's physical presence...
...which the Montana Democratic Party immediately responded with an ad that replayed the "tip" line of the ad and then went on: "Here's a tip. The man attacking Jon Tester is an actor. A fake, sent by Senator Burns' Washington friends to tell lies about Jon Tester ... It's bad enough that Burns took thousands of dollars from sleazy lobbyist Jack Abramoff's associate and then changed his vote...
...President Bush has created the world's largest protected marine area, dubbed the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument. It contains sea life that has inspired some of our most breathtaking screen savers." JON STEWART...
...Translation: The Senate bill has to come a lot closer to what we want. Meanwhile, in the basement of the Capitol, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana spoke with TIME.com before holding the latest in a series of meetings with Senate hard-liner Jon Kyl of Arizona, a kindred spirit to the House Republicans...
...York Times crossword puzzle as "a set of boxes in which you practice the wordplay of this particularly exquisite language." Bill Clinton solves his Times crosswords as he would a political problem: "You start with what you know the answer to, and you just build on it." Jon Stewart begins a Tuesday puzzle with such confidence, "I'm gonna do it in glue stick...