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Cheney Attendance at Senate |
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9:16 am EDT, Oct 7, 2004 |
] (From the [Senate] diaries, Cheney presided over the Senate a
] grand total of two times the past four years -- just as
] many times as Edwards, who also did so twice. Slightly
] edited -- kos)
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] "Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the
] president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the
] Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session."
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] --Dick Cheney
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] The extended entry has the presiding officers over the
] last four years for every Tuesday session. Cheney Attendance at Senate |
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Winston-Salem Journal | Edwards tops most hopefuls in Senate attendance record |
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9:12 am EDT, Oct 7, 2004 |
] Before this year [2003], Edwards missed just seven votes out of
] 1,307 in his first four years in office, Briggs said.
] During his five years in the Senate, Edwards voted 1,551
] times out of 1,626 roll-call votes, Briggs said, or 95.4
] percent. Winston-Salem Journal | Edwards tops most hopefuls in Senate attendance record |
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ABCNEWS.com : Meeting Was Not First for Cheney, Edwards |
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10:38 am EDT, Oct 6, 2004 |
] CLEVELAND Oct. 6, 2004 %u2014 Vice President Dick Cheney
] said Tuesday night that the debate with Democratic Sen.
] John Edwards marked the first time they had met. In fact,
] the two had met at least three times previously. If Bush had made this mistake, no one would have cared, because polling shows people trust him. Cheney's a different story, and I'm not surprised the news of his lie is popular at both Yahoo News and Memigo.com. ABCNEWS.com : Meeting Was Not First for Cheney, Edwards |
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The New York Times -- The Increasing Monolingualism of Black Venacular |
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8:54 am EDT, Oct 6, 2004 |
Professor Labov argues that black Americans have become more monolingual since the 60's - that fewer of them have a mastery of standard English. That's the result of residential segregation, the fact that poor blacks tend to live with poor blacks. But it's also compounded by desegregation, which ended up separating the black poor and the black middle class. Because of these two factors, there's now a large group of poor black people whose face-to-face conversations are almost entirely with people like themselves. As the cultural critic Greg Tate told me, black people are "segregated, landlocked and institutionalized between prison, the project and public institutions." He added that "there's a certain tribal caste to segregated African-American communities for that reason," and that's reflected in their increased monolingualism. Writing in The Times 25 years ago, James Baldwin ventured that the black vernacular was one of self-defense. "There was a moment, in time, in this place," he recalled, "when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which I was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today." Is that still true? The black vernacular seems to be everywhere these days, from Dave Chappelle's show to Boost Mobile's "Where you at?" ad campaign. "It becomes part of the mainstream in a minute," the poet Amiri Baraka told me, referring to the black vernacular. "We hear the rappers say, 'I'm outta here' - the next thing you know, Clinton's saying. 'I'm outta here.' " And both Senator John Kerry and President Bush are calling out, "Bring it on," like dueling mike-masters at a hip-hop slam. Talk about changing places. Even as large numbers of black children struggle with standard English, hip-hop has become the recreational lingua franca of white suburban youth. Baldwin's notion of using black English to encode messages seems almost romantic now. The New York Times -- The Increasing Monolingualism of Black Venacular |
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Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog. |
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| Topic: Society |
8:49 am EDT, Oct 6, 2004 |
] "This is a good blog. This is the best blog. It is about
] god and the universe and those horrible screaming monkeys
] and that time I made a pizza out of an old tire and a can
] of whip cream. It is the Fafblog." Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog. |
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| Topic: Arts |
10:12 am EDT, Oct 5, 2004 |
] The original edition of the book went through years of
] translation and several revisions, with translators Nick
] Nicholas and Andrew Strader aided by feedback and
] editorial assistance from Mark Shoulson, d'Armond Speers,
] and Will Martin. Translation by committee is a tricky
] thing, but Hamlet represents the largest piece of text in
] Klingon to date and we wanted to be as grammatically
] accurate as possible. That concern resulted in several
] hundred changes to the text when Pocket Books expressed
] an interest in publishing a trade paperback version. In
] the intervening years Klingon scholarship had revealed
] new insights into the language and we insisted on
] incorporating them into the new book. Nick Nicholas and
] Lawrence Schoen expanded the appendices for the new
] edition as well, giving further insight into the play and
] its context in the larger scope of Imperial and
] Federation politics.
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] You may think you've read Hamlet before, but you can't
] really appreciate it until you've read it in the original
] Klingon. Now's your chance. Enjoy! The Klingon Hamlet |
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Yahoo! News - 20 Year-Old Murder Case Set for Trial |
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10:09 am EDT, Oct 5, 2004 |
] BOSTON - The clues that Robin Gilbert had been murdered
] seemed obvious: The 14-year-old's clothes were torn, her
] body had been dragged hundreds of yards and it was then
] left covered in brush.
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] Yet the medical examiner stunned many in the town of
] Reading by ruling in 1975 that Gilbert died from heart
] disease, not from being attacked. The case was closed for
] more than 20 years. Yahoo! News - 20 Year-Old Murder Case Set for Trial |
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Royal flush covers loo blushes |
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| Topic: Society |
10:08 am EDT, Oct 5, 2004 |
] It has happened to many of us: you take your seat in a
] public toilet and, just as nature is about to take its
] course, someone enters next door.
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] Cue exaggerated coughing and throat clearing in an
] attempt to drown out the cacophony that sometimes
] accompanies one of nature's great levellers. Women in
] Japan, however, no longer have to suffer the indignity of
] having their movements echo through the ladies' room.
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] With a flick of the hand, they can call on the Sound
] Princess. Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Royal flush covers loo blushes |
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NEWS.com.au | House hoax drives council mad (October 5, 2004) |
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| Topic: Society |
10:07 am EDT, Oct 5, 2004 |
] EAGER Simpsons fans have inundated Whittlesea Council in
] Melbourne with telephone calls after rumours the
] municipality had a real-life replica of the cartoon
] family's home.
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] A hoax e-mail has prompted Simpsons devotees to spend
] hours driving around Whittlesea's northern suburbs trying
] to find the double-storey property. NEWS.com.au | House hoax drives council mad (October 5, 2004) |
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Anheuser-Busch cooks up sweeter brew for club goers - Oct. 5, 2004 |
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| Topic: Business |
9:59 am EDT, Oct 5, 2004 |
] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brewer Anheuser-Busch says it will
] introduce a caffeinated, sweet-flavored beer for
] twentysomething club goers to compete with the flavored
] rums and vodkas gaining ground on the dance floor.
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] The new beer B(E) -- read as "B to the E power" -- will
] roll out in several phases starting in November. Anheuser-Busch cooks up sweeter brew for club goers - Oct. 5, 2004 |
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