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...Legislature’s vote has turned this fear into reality. With it, the petition to constitutionally ban gay marriage has fulfilled almost all the prerequisites necessary for advancement to the general ballot as a referendum in 2008: the collection of signatures equivalent to three percent of votes cast for governor during the previous statewide election and a 25 percent vote from the Legislature in each of two consecutive sessions. All that now remains for the question to be sent to the general ballot is a second one-quarter vote from the Legislature.Supporters of the marriage ban argue that, since...
...This year, my boyhood baseball dreams came true. Ken Davidoff, our J.P. Stevens High School sports editor turned New York Newsday baseball columnist, has finished serving his required 10-year apprenticeship as a baseball writer and finally got to cast a Hall of Fame vote for the first time. And Ken-one of the nicest guys I?ve ever known-let me down...
More threequels are in store after Spidey, Shrek and Captain Jack have fleeced you. On June 8, Ocean's Thirteen, with George Clooney heading an all-star cast in the heist series that so far has cadged $814 million. And on Aug. 10, Rush Hour 3, the Jackie Chan-- Chris Tucker action-comedy whose predecessors have grossed $592 million...
Carter won by fewer than 2 million votes out of 81.6 million cast. But Ford never had any regrets about the pardon or his refusal to name Jesus as his running mate. His oldest son Jack told him, "You know, when you come so close, it's really hard to lose. But at the same time, if you can't lose as graciously as you plan to win, then you shouldn't have been in the thing in the first place...
...senior Sadr aide, Sahib al-Amiri, in the same Shi'ite holy city where the cleric lives. But Sadr's forces continue to show their strength throughout Baghdad even so, driving the daily rhythm of sectarian violence in the city with orchestrated attacks against Sunnis. Sadr even managed to cast an ominous voice into Hussein's death chamber, where Sadr loyalists among the government witnesses of the hanging chanted "Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada" as a taunt to the former dictator moments before he died. The scene added yet another notch in the tension building between U.S. forces and the Mahdi Army...