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...super-delegates, nine of whom remain undeclared even as political number-crunchers increasingly say that super-delegates could end up deciding the close race for the Democratic nomination. Clinton made a point at her Thursday evening rally of touting one her newest super-delegate endorsers, Washington Rep. Norm Dicks, but the Clinton rally was also notable for the absence of one prominent super-delegate who had said she would make her decision before the caucuses on Saturday: Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire...
...parents was a Hindu, the other a Catholic. I went to services of both faiths from time to time. My ex-wife persuaded me to become a Presbyterian, and now I am an agnostic. Religion has become a tool of intolerance, and extremism is now the norm. Humanism has been forgotten. Robert R. Mittoo, Calgary, Canada
...security blanket on the set, not because of shot selections. He did all of that himself. I was a security blanket if he decided, here's something I want to do that was apart from what the people who were financing it read, apart from whatever the norm was or was going to be. He'd say I think this guy should do this. I'd go, 'do it.' I was protective of him, so he could get away with the things he wanted to get away with. If you're going to be an actor and you're going...
...advertising ban. It is conceivable, at least, that the monthly tax could go even higher without incurring too much consumer fury, since France currently enjoys one of the cheapest ISP markets in the developed world. Average monthly Internet access in France costs around $37, which is 37% below the norm for OECD members. That comfort margin may be one reason Sarkozy dared to challenge received thinking on taxing...
...some ways the story of Obama's victory was written in the turnout numbers. Democratic party officials said that turnout exceeded 218,000, a jump of nearly 100,000 - or nearly 80% - over 2004. A variety of precincts sites around Des Moines reported turnout two or three times the norm, with some would-be caucusers being turned away or precinct captains running out of registration forms. Obama's supporters swamped some sites...