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...years ago, Michael Moore spoke with then-Governor George W. Bush, who told the muckraker: ?Behave yourself, will ya? Go find real work.? Moore has made trouble for so many powerful people he has become a media power of his own. He can even make celebrities of mere movie reviewers: When his latest cinematic incendiary device, ?Fahrenheit 9/11,? had its first press screening Monday morning, American critics emerging from the theater were besieged by a convoy of TV and radio crews from networks around the world who wanted to know what they thought of Moore?s blast at the Bush...
...effort that went into selecting TIME's 100, it made me uncomfortable that the Heroes & Icons category, which listed the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, also included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson. Schwarzenegger and Gibson became icons as film stars, and their real contributions to the world are mere pinpricks. Bronwyn Noble Madison...
...first 15 strokes, Navy had already established a four-seat lead, leaving Harvard in a familiar, but untenable position. Initially, the Crimson did what it has all season long. As other crews nipped at its heels, Harvard slowly walked back through the Midshipmen, winnowing their lead to a mere seat at the 1,000-meter mark...
Some students said yesterday afternoon that they hoped that the network problems would be fixed quickly enough to confine the disruption to a mere nuisance rather than a disaster...
...poll is the example par excellence of the power of incumbency at the national level. Labor needed to pick up seven seats to win government - a mere 0.8% swing in the coalition's most vulnerable seats. But those seats did not fall to Labor. Not a single sitting Liberal or National M.P. lost to a Labor candidate. (Two coalition seats fell to Independents; Labor won Ballarat after a popular Liberal retired). For a variety of reasons, Labor also lost a bunch of its own marginal seats - or those that were deemed theirs through redistributions. According to a recent study...