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...turning in voter registration forms collected from voters of the opposite party. In Pennsylvania, a criminal investigation is underway to determine who is responsible for an ominous flier printed on official-looking stationary with a county letterhead, which was distributed at a Pittsburgh area shopping mall and mailed to untold numbers of residents. The flier explained that “due to immense voter turnout expected on Tuesday,” the election had been extended. Republicans were asked to vote today, Nov. 2, while Democrats were asked to vote tomorrow...
Americans of all types were subject to a surprising civics lesson when Florida and New Mexico were decided by a few hundred votes each in 2000. Black voters, and those sympathetic to them, are particularly motivated by the events of the 2000 election, in which an untold number of black voters in Florida (and elsewhere) were prevented from voting by election officials trying to enforce illegal identification requirements, faulty equipment, state troopers temporarily detaining black drivers, and, infamously, by inaccurate felony rolls. The lack of redress for widespread voter suppression has caused much of black America to have a large...
...Untold goes the explanation for a sudden toss of a fireman dummy off a six story building to the abject horror of a producer talking on his cell phone below. Also untold remains the origin of Jay Russell’s nickname, “Spanky the Monkey,” which haunted the director throughout the entire shoot...
...kids are also at risk. In a 2000 study for Gifted Child Quarterly, Joseph Renzulli and Sunghee Park found that 5% of the 3,520 gifted students they followed dropped out after eighth grade. Astonishingly, that's almost as high as the 5.2% of nongifted kids who dropped out. Untold numbers of other highly intelligent kids stay in school but tune out. "When we ask exceptional children about their main obstacle, they almost always say it's their school," says Jan Davidson, a co-author of the new book Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds. "Their...
...Simpson! Jonbenet Ramsey! Michael Jackson! "Enquiring minds want to know," and the National Enquirer is eager to oblige. No one knows more about the colorful supermarket tabloid than Iain Calder, author of The Untold Story: My 20 Years Running the National Enquirer. What's it like to be at the helm of the paper that put celebrity journalism on the map? TIME met with Calder...