Word: sundays
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...October 30, 1938. A Sunday night. About 8 p.m. You're sitting in your living room. Possibly in an easy chair. Maybe the lights are off and there's a cup of tea on the table by your side. The radio dial casts a dim glow. You're relaxed, listening to the immensely popular Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some...
...Despite the two-to-three-hour waits, the Florida numbers keep growing. As of the close of polls on Tuesday, more than 1.4 million Floridians had voted early, a figure that elections officials say could double by Sunday evening. In Miami-Dade County, where Birgin voted, 162,456 people had cast ballots through Tuesday, over 40% more than during the same period in 2004. In Palm Beach County, site of the disastrous butterfly-ballot controversy of 2000, 56,685 people voted early in the first week, more than in the entire two-week period of 2004. This, despite the fact...
...made the case that America's Election Day should be on a weekend instead of a weekday when almost everyone is working: Bishin notes that last week, early-voting numbers in Miami-Dade County dropped from 21,000 on Friday to 14,500 on Saturday and 16,600 on Sunday before bouncing back to 24,000 on Monday. Then again, this is Florida, where weekends are for the beach - something practically everyone, Democrats and Republicans, can agree...
...Even Croatia's top policeman joined the angry chorus. "At least half of the force is incompetent or corrupted," admitted police director Vladimir Faber in a television interview on Sunday. "So many people only got jobs in police because they had political connections, completely regardless of their qualifications." But critics of Faber point out that he, too, gained his position by virtue of his allegiance to Croatia's Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader...
...Sunday will mark one year since a 21-year-old British exchange student was found slashed to death in the apartment she shared with her angel-faced American roommate Amanda Knox in the picturesque Italian city of Perugia...