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...Beach County, Fla., is ecstatic. Not only does the high early-voting turnout favor Democratic voters, but the party appears to be ahead in absentee ballots, traditionally dominated by Republicans. "[In the past,] we've won races on the machines and lost them in the absentee," says Mark Alan Siegel, president of the Democratic Club of Boca Raton-Delray Beach, in the southern part of the county...
...county's 145,792 early-voting ballots, more than 88,000 came from registered Democrats, around 27,000 for Republicans and more than 29,000 from other parties that include independents. Siegel said Democrats currently outnumber Republicans in absentee ballots 43,000 to 36,000. Historically, it's not unusual for Republicans to outnumber Democrats 3 to 1 in that category. But county GOP chairman Sid Dinerstein says he isn't worried. "We'll catch up by 7 o'clock," he predicts. - Hector Florin / Boynton Beach...
...Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, says the Fed's actions this week - effectively lending a trillion dollars into the financial system - may have a more dramatic immediate impact. "Given what the Fed is doing now, I wonder if we even need the $700 billion,"Siegel says. If the Fed and Treasury steps turn out to be effective, the market could turn the corner sharply. The most dramatic growth in U.S. stock market history took place between 1932 and 1933, out of the depths of the depression...
...never rose above fight-movie bromides, never disspelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral twlight as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing cliches; here he recycles them...
...trip last month to China with co-host Robert Siegel, Block visited Chengdu and witnessed the earthquake that rocked the region, causing thousands of casualties and making international headlines. Block, who had been preparing to interview a Protestant minister when the quake started, was able to file a story narrated from the midst of the disaster...