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Hillary slipped. Eliot Spitzer slipped and then split. If Americans had looked at the facts, both would have landed on their feet. The junior senator and governor of New York demonstrated the pragmatism and candor sorely needed in the immigration debate, and were sadly tongue-lashed for their wise judgment Two weeks ago, Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) made her first unfashionable maneuver of the primaries. Questioned by Tim Russert as to whether or not she supported Gov. Spitzer’s unpopular plan to allow state driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, Hillary was hesitant to give...
...Meanwhile, Bratton decamped to the private sector and eventually became chief of police for Los Angeles. "The reason they split wasn't that Bill had failed to do the job," says Walinsky. "Strange as it may sound, even a city as big as New York wasn't big enough for the two of them...
...Christian TV market is almost as fragmented as the Republican field. The largest network, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, airs several of the more popular Charismatic televangelists. But Grady suspects TBN's Praise the Lord talk/variety program will probably forgo candidate appearances: not only because the religious right is split on which horse to back, but because a significant proportion of TBN's viewers are African-American Pentecostals, some of whom favor Barack Obama. The most influential evangelical radio show is Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family, but Dobson has not endorsed Huckabee...
Embedded in the BPro is a sensor that picks up pulsations from the artery in the wrist and translates them into blood-pressure readings. Ting leases the BPro to doctors, who charge patients $80 a day to use it--a fee split with Ting...
...uphold. Should the new-style head of state, an Australian President, be appointed by Parliament? Or elected in a national campaign, in the American manner? The A.R.M. wanted the former, but Australians hated the idea of an American-style republic--or American-style anything--in their public life. This split the republican vote, to the boundless relief of the monarchists, who could never have carried the issue on their own. (Pollsters thought that about 70% of Australians were for a republic of some kind...