Word: could
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...CHER could turn back time, if she could find a way, she'd really like to kick the stuffing out of some nuns. On Sisters of Mercy, a song from her Internet-only release not.com.mercial Cher gives the lyrical smackdown to nuns that ran an orphanage where she stayed as a child while her mother waitressed at an all-night diner. The singer calls the sisters "mothers of shame," "masters of pain" and "twisters of truth," which doesn't quite rhyme, but makes the point. The Catholic League is unimpressed. "Much like the rest of Hollywood," says a spokesman...
...week of general humiliation, there was some good news for the TV networks: they did accurately award Florida to the winner. The bad news: they also awarded it to the loser. Dan Rather assured viewers they could take CBS's election-night projections "to the bank"; then the networks had to make two costly withdrawals. It was, in the words of CBS and CNN election consultant Warren Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida...
...close this special issue on Wednesday afternoon. But when we saw how others were rushing to judgment with appalling projections and incorrect headlines, we decided to revert to our weekend schedule (with help from some smart planning and scrambling by our unflappable operations director Nancy Mynio) so we could report this historic moment thoroughly and credibly...
...America has one great ghost in the attic, who whispers the name America in the middle of the night, to remind us that--evidence of individual competitiveness and self-interest to the contrary notwithstanding--somewhere in the unconscious heart, a nation comes together. If that were not so, we could never make it through times like this with such blithe self-confidence...
...Grey Dimond, with whom she had two daughters. After her divorce, and after Ted's first wife Helen committed suicide in 1967, Audrey and Ted were married. Until the end of his life, Audrey devoted herself to his care. "The idea was to keep the body there so it could take that mind as far as it wanted to go," says Audrey, who trained as a nurse in World War II. "I kept the Band-Aids going." After a life of playing doctor's wife, then nurse, Geisel today is empowered with the estate. She's being courted by Hollywood...