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Every year, after the nation drags itself through the four to eight hours of an Oscar ordeal, critics offer suggestions for spiffing up the show. Cut the production numbers. Cut the technical awards. How about if the nominated actors perform scenes from their movies, and the viewers vote by phone, American Idol-style? Maybe Clooney and Daniel Day-Lewis, this year's front runners for Best Actor, could be put in a cage and have an ultimate fight...
SCOTT WALKER, mayor of Reeves, La., which will change its phone prefix from 666 so that residents won't have a number that is associated in Christianity with the devil...
...East Des Moines office. For about 30 seconds before speaking he simply stood, head back, smiling, relishing the cheers and chants of "Go Johnny, go" from the more than 100 steel workers who planned on spending the remaining few days leading up to the Iowa caucuses working the phone lines to convince as many Iowans as they can to support the former North Carolina Senator...
...Rick Scarborough, another Huckabee supporter and prominent evangelical leader who heads the organization Vision America, told those on the call that the letters should further motivate pastors to get their congregants to the caucuses. "My response to that would be for all of you men to make ten phone calls before you go to bed tonight," Scarborough said on the call. "Tell your people that you have been listening to legal opinion and you can be involved." Throughout the course of the 30-minute call, which included the advice of an attorney, no specific candidates were mentioned...
...recent weeks, David Welch, the Pastor Council's director, has been traveling through Iowa to educate religious leaders about their legal rights to motivate evangelicals to attend the caucuses. He has provided churches with phone scripts and a automated phone calling service so pastors can encourage their members to turn out Thursday night. "God's word directs us in Exodus 18:21 to choose for rulers 'just men who will rule in the fear of God,'" reads one sample script. "We do that here by attending our precinct caucuses and bringing our faith and values with...