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Yeah, during that four-year period I went to [Oktoberfest] three times and Mardi Gras twice just to compare them. Mardi Gras is fun—it’s a looney bin—but in the end it didn’t hold up to Oktoberfest...
...final wild card is Louisiana. Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu is leading, but the state has a unique "open primary" on Election Day in which all candidates from all parties are thrown together on one ballot. (It's like Mardi Gras with debates.) If no one gets 50%--and there are nine candidates, three of whom are legitimate G.O.P. hopefuls--the top two finishers go to a run-off on Dec. 7, meaning that it's possible that the Senate could remain locked 49 to 49 to 1 until then. Just in case such a scenario plays out, both parties (having...
Normally, this might be of only local interest. But this year the Senate is so closely divided that the Louisiana vote might determine which party controls the chamber. Not everyone dreads the prospect of a monthlong political Mardi Gras of party operatives and national reporters traipsing through the state. "With the outcome of the Senate at stake, a December runoff in Louisiana would be the next best thing to the Saints' being in the Super Bowl," exults Republican Congressman Billy Tauzin. (And more likely, given the Saints' NFL history.) "There would be money and madness everywhere." --By Karen Tumulty
...final wild card is Louisiana. Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu is leading, but the state has a unique "open primary" on Election Day in which all candidates from all parties are thrown together on one ballot. (It's like Mardi Gras with debates.) If no one gets 50%--and there are nine candidates, three of whom are legitimate G.O.P. hopefuls - the top two finishers go to a run-off on Dec. 7, meaning that it's possible that the Senate could remain locked 49 to 49 to 1 until then. Just in case such a scenario plays out, both parties (having...
...fall ritual as timeworn as buying spiral notebooks and neglecting to vote: asking how much lower TV's moral limbo dance will go. Is TV becoming a nonstop Mardi Gras of skanks flashing themselves for trinkets? Is any broadcaster still interested in programs that a whole family can watch? The answers are yes--and yes. The former is obvious if you have seen the pixelated nudity on Big Brother 3 and Dog Eat Dog. But a sizable minority of the fall's new programs are, shockingly, about families working out problems with love and clean dialogue...