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...Caucuses are less formal and take place in several stages. Instead of participating in a secret ballot, voters attend regional meetings, where over the course of several hours they listen to delegates stump for the various candidates. In some jurisdictions people still get up and stand single file behind the delegate they plan to support. In later stages of the nomination process, these delegates move on to county or regional caucuses, where they again seek support, and, after two to four lower caucuses, the winning delegates vote in a statewide convention...
...leaving the general population with no say in the electoral process until the general election. Over time, most states switched to the caucuses and primaries, although many of those remained virtually meaningless for decades, as local delegates weren't bound to nominate the candidates who received the most votes. Instead, they would head to state conventions where their votes were bartered among local power brokers, thus keeping the power in the hands of the small cadre of party bosses. State party heads would then show up at the national convention and barter their delegates for concessions from the party...
...send a look book. Just tell us what you want,'" says Swank, whose current taste for Valentino should avert barbs from E! channel fashionista Joan Rivers. And the agent who negotiated the deal for Boys Don't Cry is gone, along with her manager of nine years. Instead she's signed with Kevin Huvane, the powerful Creative Artists Agency executive whose other clients include Tom Cruise. "Every agent in town called me," she explains. "I met with everybody, but [CAA] seemed to have the best game plan." Pricewise, her stock has risen quicker than Qualcomm's. She jokes that...
...that's the crux of the problem. How many women should undergo what is, when it comes right down to it, unnecessary treatment to find a few more cases of cervical cancer? Shouldn't health officials focus instead on making sure that more women undergo regular Pap-smear examinations? After all, Pap smears, though far from perfect, have helped dramatically lower the death toll from cervical cancer--taking it from the No. 1 cause of death due to cancer in American women to the 10th...
...tell me that my ice cream name stood out from the hundreds of entries, making it to the short list of five. I figured one of the others was my other suggestion, A Very Good Flavor that You're Definitely Going to Want to Try, but it was not. Instead, the other four were Millennium Madness, Millennium Flavor, Millennium Yummy and Y2Krunchy. There are, apparently, a lot of shelters in upstate New York...