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...increased by 1 million since he first took office. The cdu is pitching Merkel as honest and unvarnished. Posters depict the 51-year-old former research chemist as apple-cheeked and glowing in an apricot-colored jacket. She's also lightening up on the stump a bit, seeming surer, more relaxed and even cracking the occasional joke. The clean-cut, no-nonsense image is meant to make Merkel look more trustworthy than the slicker, suaver Schröder. "If we were to disappoint voters again the way Schröder did in 2002, people would ask themselves whether there...
...G.O.P. opponents may have another gambit up their sleeve. To gain a surer vote on abortion and other hot-button conservative issues, they are proposing that Bush appoint John Cornyn, a conservative Texas Senator and former judge, to the court instead of Gonzales--and fill Cornyn's Senate seat with Representative Henry Bonilla, a Mexican American, in an effort to appeal to Latinos who back Gonzales. The battle will only grow more complicated if Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires, as he reportedly is planning to do, and opens up yet another court vacancy...
...Paar had been hot, mercurial, no surer of what he would do next than his audience. If he'd tangled with NBC earlier that day, or if his daughter Randy got her first training bra, he blurted it out on the air. The show's intimate, neurotic tone made watching Paar an energizing, enervating experience -Event Television.. Carson established order, control (one of his favorite words), an elastic predictability. After the Paar boil, Carson, with his sang froid and what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan...
THERE ARE FEW SURER WAYS TO WIN ratings than to level a city in a fictional earthquake or crash an asteroid into the planet. Mindless TV disaster epics are a sweeps staple. But toward the end of the cold war, there flourished a high-minded subgenre: the Very Special Disaster Movie--VSDM. In the '80s, such shows as The Day After, Special Bulletin, Threads and Testament told what-if stories about nuclear attacks and their aftermaths. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the networks' interest in atomic catastrophes disappeared, even if the nukes didn...
...route to the objective of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Marwan Barghouti sees armed struggle as an indispensable lever in pursuit of the same goal, seeing it as a complement to talks because he believes that the Palestinians capacity to wage an armed intifada is surer leverage at the negotiating table than relying on the goodwill of the United States...