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...Georgia native began her crossword odyssey in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. As an act of rejection against what she termed the Journal Constitution’s “lackluster” comics page, Tiao began filling out the Sunday crossword. “There was nothing better to do when reading on a Sunday morning,” she says...
...tens of millions of voters who will swarm the polls today, only a fraction—that is, those living in the hotly contested swing states—will have a real say in choosing the next president. For this reason and others, this page has advocated the abolition of the Electoral College and the determination of the presidency based on a national popular vote...
...frank, unsparing, meticulous account of a life lived entirely on impulse, for pleasure and for kicks, and Kiedis (or possibly his co-author, Larry Sloman) has a gift for describing pleasure, especially that of playing music with your pals, something that rarely comes through on the page. The best scene in the book occurs when the Peppers first hook up with drummer Chad Smith, who walks in looking like a metal-head burnout and then stuns the band when he pounds the skins like Art Blakey. "It was a big eruption of sound and energy," Kiedis writes...
...organization called America Coming Together, supposedly because they fear that Republicans would slash their tires if they knew where it was. In Jefferson County, Colo., someone has been calling voters and warning them that it's too late to fill out their absentee ballots. A 66-page manual put out by the Democratic National Committee doesn't just warn of Republican intimidation tactics; it says "if no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a pre-emptive strike" by planting stories in the press in which minority leadership expresses "concern about the threat of intimidation tactics...
...three days, Stopsinclair.org raised enough for full-page newspaper ads opposing Sinclair in four swing-state markets. Burger King announced it would pull ads from Sinclair stations, and $90 million was wiped off the value of Sinclair shares, though the stock rebounded after Sinclair altered its broadcast. Sinclair officials claim opponents hurt their own cause. "They turned what would have been a relatively minor story in 25% of the country into a much larger story in 100% of the country," says Barry Faber, vice president and general counsel at Sinclair. "If they had just let us do the show...