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...Telling them they don't deserve it isn't going to endear the Democratic Party to a state that is regularly referred to these days as the new California. In Florida, as Geller notes, national elections are often "poised on the edge of a razor blade. They can go either way." As a result, Florida's Democrats are dumbfounded that Dean and the DNC would put the state's 27 electoral votes at risk, not only by muffling its say in the Democratic nominating process - top Democratic candidates will be less likely to stump in Florida if the DNC sanctions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Dean's War on Florida Backfire? | 8/27/2007 | See Source »

...stature as his generation's most daring, most distinctive filmmaker and one of its signature eccentrics does not automatically endear Herzog to Hollywood. Though estimable actors from Claudia Cardinale to Tim Roth have graced his films and though in the late '70s he had a project (Fitzcarraldo) that was to be produced by Francis Ford Coppola and star Jack Nicholson, Herzog knows that in the U.S. the big-money guys are as averse to risk as he is addicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Risky for Hollywood | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...number of very ambiguous texts, or on a problematic and nonscriptural theory." As Archbishop of Wales he admitted knowingly ordaining at least one noncelibate gay man. When he moved with his wife and two children to Lambeth Palace in 2002, the Herald newspaper of Glasgow enthused, "What will endear him to the people ... is that he has the courage of his convictions, however unpopular they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Grace | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

Some providers offer the service for free to customers that accept text message ads, a possibility that did not endear such a system to some...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Crisis Alert Plan Examined | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...course there is no special merit in things like chain restaurants and local government, except that they are part of the fabric that binds Americans together. That should be enough to endear them to us. If not, what does a Harvard graduate working on Wall Street have in common with the schoolteachers and cops whose retirement funds she manages...

Author: By Joshua Patashnik | Title: Is Harvard American Enough? | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

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