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...claim has been that the recounts violate the 14th Amendment's equal-protection guarantee because they were occurring in some counties and not in others. The effect, the Republicans said, was to give extra voting rights to citizens in counties that have recounts. The justices' response was, once again, shrewd: order undervotes counted in all counties, and no one is legally disadvantaged...
...larger meaning in director Thornton's original cut - said to have been close to four hours long - is impossible to say, at least until the dvd comes out. For the moment, we have a perfectly coherent, handsomely rendered couple of hours, animated in particular by Damon's good performance - shrewd, innocent, angry, wistful and, above all, likable. Maybe this movie might have been more. But it could easily have been a lot less...
Though consumers love to use bots to find a deal, wary merchants see them as agents for profit-busting bidding wars. Some sellers at first erected barriers to prevent these price-foraging bots from getting any information. Not a shrewd move, as online customers simply passed those sellers by. Others outsmarted the bots by listing a very low price and then, as the order was made, zapping the shopper with stiff shipping costs...
...sense of humor. In the Manhattan Theatre Club's U.S. premiere of Ayckbourn's West End success, Janie Dee reprises her astonishing London performance as a robot whose emotions are an amalgam of all the bad scenes she's ever played. The play is astonishing too: at once a shrewd satire of TV, a warming love story and a potent meditation on the nature of humanity...
...that, I suspect, has to do with the successful Bush p.r. machine and their shrewd assessment that in politics, as in real estate, occupancy is nine-tenths of the law and, more important, of perception. If you act like the President-elect, a lot of people will think you are the President-elect...