"In an ideal world, we would be blessed with the "Old-Fashioned Election Night Channel," which would merely show raw-vote totals from key races around the country. The only on-air commentary would come from...
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"November 7, 2006 -- THE screenwriter William Goldman changed history in Hollywood with three simple words: "Nobody knows anything."
He was giving a simple and profound explanation for why some movies succeed and...
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"November 7, 2006 -- PayPal, eBay Inc.'s online payment services division, said it will offer as much as $100 million in holiday rebates and free shipping to fend off competition from Google Inc.
Consumers will receive up to $20 in cash-back rebates from PayPal when they make...
"Results from Indiana and Kentucky, which both contain key battlegrounds, will likely be the first to arrive, coming in after 7 p.m. Eastern.
Key tossups include Kentucky's Republican-held third and fourth...
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"San Francisco and San Jose was one of 15 American cities that went online today in a new Microsoft Corp. mapping site that goes head-to-head with Google Earth.
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new feature shows high-resolution 3-D cyber replicas of cities. So...
"Capitol Hill may soon swell from speed bump to stumbling block for an embattled President Bush, depending on which levers the voters pull in the congressional midterm elections a week from tomorrow.
Handicappers say Democrats have at least an outside chance of seizing...
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"Republicans are counting on a late surge in the public-opinion polls to cut their expected losses as a record number of American voters are predicted to participate in today's midterm elections.
Democrats...
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"3.30pm Tuesday November 7, 2006 - New Zealand
An 18-year-old Russian immigrant has been arrested in Manhattan Beach, California, for threatening to kill young actress Hilary Duff.
Police have charged Maksim...
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"Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (Geneva):
The Red Cross has demanded an immediate stop to using cluster bombs.
The organisation has pointed out that the indiscriminate civilian deaths caused by the weapons far outweigh any possible military advantages.
On Monday, the International...
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Today is the day before an anticipated "landslide" election where the airwaves are filled with vile, slander, and puffery.
Ads paint Republicans and Democrats alike in the absolute worst light and it all can...
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"Yesterday, the Episcopal Church, in its OWN wisdom, decided to throw all sacred tradition aside and complete a process it started back in 1974 when it first bucked over 400 years of original tradition with...
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"November 4, 2006 -- Yesterday's front-page story in The New York Times about the U.S. Web archive of captured documents detailing Saddam Hussein's quest for nuclear weapons raises a lot of serious questions -...
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"TEHRAN, Iran -
Iran test-fired three new sea missiles in the Persian Gulf Friday, indicating that the maneuvers should send a clear message to the U.S. not to conduct any more military exercises in the...
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"NEW YORK --US retailers' sales rose the least in four months as consumers held off on spending ahead of the holiday season. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. forecast the worst sales in more than 10 years.
October sales at 57 chains surveyed by the International Council of Shopping...
"After years of articles exclaiming "Bush Lied And People Died", a chant asserting that the president lied about the nuclear activity and ambitions of Saddam Hussein and the threat Iraq posed to the free world, The New York Times found evidence that the ability to make nukes...
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