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...year is that online retailers are getting in on the Black Friday action. Most stores will let shoppers get Black Friday deals online instead of fighting the crowds. Amazon.com, which is, of course, storeless, is sending out promotions in mid-November. In previous years it didn't do anything special for the big day, says Vincent of BlackFriday.info...
...does eke out a victory, he is already facing calls from across his party to resign soon afterward. Both John McCain and Sarah Palin called on Stevens to step down after the election. Under Alaska law, a resignation would set in motion a chain of events leading to a special election to replace him 60 to 90 days later. If he chooses not to resign and his appeals fail, the Senate would probably toss him out. "There is zero chance," said GOP leader Mitch McConnell, "that a Senator with a felony conviction would not be expelled from the Senate...
...year (Dance Hall of the Dead) in 1974, and in 1991 he received the highest award the organization can bestow: the title Grand Master for lifetime achievement. Yet the honor that brought him greatest pleasure was given to him by the Navajo Tribal Council when they named him a Special Friend of the Dineh (Navajo...
...Banks revealed her biggest beauty secret on “The Tyra Banks Show:” “I’m about to reveal my BIGGEST BEAUTY SECRET EVER! EVER!! YES!!!...Now during the break we had some really hunky boys that brought out these very special boxes to our studio audience, and inside the boxes is my no sell super-duper skin-saving EYE AND ANYTHING CREAM!!!...DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!! ONE...TWO...THREE...OPEN THEM OPEN THEM OPEN THEM OPEN THEM IT’S VASELINE!!! YOU GET VASELINE AND YOU GET VASELINE...
...earned savings are always going to be taken from us by someone—whether we have any or not.” In other stories, the apathy is even more marked. Decapitation by piano strings and asphyxiations by pachinko balls are details thrown into stories that go without special notice by the author—who just glides over them—or by any of the characters, who all fail to notice the strange occurrences. The wife of “Bad Heart” brushes off her husband’s complaints of cardiovascular problems...