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...managed to bring in more than 50 percent of the votes in the November election, she'd be settling in for a second term in D.C. rather than wrangling with Terrell in increasingly heated debates. Nevertheless, despite the incumbent's lackluster performance last month, oddsmakers still give her a slight edge. Landrieu is from a respected political family; she has the advantage of incumbency and name recognition; her record is established. Most important of all in this fiercely Democratic state: She's a Democrat. And that alone may just be enough to send her back to Washington...
...slight man who accompanies handshakes with a subtle bow, has yet to embrace the trappings of executive life. His daughter, Jean, 24, who with her mother joined Ji in 1994, says her father eschews luxury items. A Cartier watch, a gift from Hsu, sits ignored in a drawer while Ji continues wearing the same beat-up Swiss-made Cyma timepiece that he's been changing wristbands on for at least a decade. An employee was recently shocked to find Ji, ever practical, scrubbing the men's room at company headquarters. Such modesty fits nicely with Apex Digital's products, which...
...Osama bin Laden, intellectuals, the media, "pseudo secularists," communists and cow killers. He reserves particular venom for Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated Premier Rajiv Gandhi. Her entire party sees the world through "Italian glasses," he declares to loud laughs. But it's an odd slight for a man who himself looks out from behind a pair of frameless Bulgaris from Milan. As the bus bounces over potholes into Gujarat's flat, dusty plains, you begin to wonder how much of his own rhetoric Modi truly believes. All talk of Pakistan, terrorism and Hindus under threat...
Columbia Athletic Director John Reeves told the Spectator that the ideal candidate would offer the right blend of competence and character “with a slight edge to character.” Some win-starved Lions fans weren’t even happy with that. One fan went to the Spectator’s website forum and wrote that “I’m ready for Mike Ditka, Howard Stern or the soon-to-be-unemployed Saddam Hussein if any of them can scrape together a few victories on the gridiron...
...hands of its legions of devotees, the game has become an expressive language they can use to tell stories about their own lives. Briar Sauro, 27, a school librarian in Brooklyn, N.Y., readily admits to having a "slight Sims obsession," i.e., on a good day she limits herself to two or three hours. "It can take up my whole evening. I don't do anything else." She experiments with using The Sims to "re-create real-life interpersonal relationships." Sauro has created an entire Sims world full of her actual friends and family. "The first year I had the game...