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...state in which Ralph Nader's candidacy could have a major impact this November is Pennsylvania, where Al Gore won by a narrow margin in 2000. Nader needs 25,697 signatures there to get on the ballot, and his campaign has turned in 45,000. But Democrats are challenging the petitions, claiming many of the names are repeated several times, as is the same handwriting, a practice known as round-robin signing. Part of the problem, opponents claim, lies with the people Nader hired to collect signatures: the homeless from Philadelphia's streets. Some of those homeless workers aren...
...passes in her floor routine. So the American went into her final performance, the floor, needing a score of 9.536 to win. With a joyful, spellbinding performance that included a double Arabian and a double-pike somersault in the tumbling runs, Patterson notched up a 9.712. In all, her margin over Khorkina was 0.176 - a crushing victory by Olympic gymnastics standards. But if the Russian felt crushed, she concealed it from the appreciative crowd of fans from across the globe. Khorkina has always loved being a diva - she once declared herself the "personification of gymnastics" - and she remained...
...poll was administered by telephone between June 16 and July 21, 2004 and surveyed 1,233 Medicare beneficiaries. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percentage points...
...Report. The report managed to move Berger's troubles off the front page, but it contained some passages that could surely make him uncomfortable. It describes several instances in which the Clinton adviser was presented with plans of action to hit al-Qaeda in Afghanistan--and balked. In the margin next to a suggestion from Richard Clarke, Berger's counterterrorism czar, to attack al-Qaeda facilities in late 1999, Berger wrote "No." The report also says Berger nixed at least two plans to go after Osama bin Laden in the three years leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks...
...They turn back much of the achievement of the last 40 years." But the resolutions actually reflect two different--and mutually hostile--constituencies. The divestment was backed by the liberal Presbyterian majority, which traditionally tempers its affirmation of Israel's right to exist with concern for Palestinian welfare. The margin for continuing Messianic funding was provided by an increasingly powerful evangelical minority. Some church activists seem honestly taken aback by the two measures being linked in controversy. It is, says conservative leader the Rev. Parker Williamson, "a disjunction, almost like frying ice." But apparently even fried ice can exert...