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...choice campaign will be tricky to pull off because it won't mesh with the high-volume voices of outside groups opposed to the nomination. A national coalition including the country's two largest pro-choice groups, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood, launched ads in Rhode Island, Maine and on national cable last week. NARAL has launched a grassroots campaign among 27 affiliates around the country timed for the Senate's Thanksgiving recess that will target members by requesting meetings, writing letters to editors and circulating petitions...
PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG That's one handsome monkey. Jackson, director of the new movie, was heavily involved with this taut, visceral tie-in, which has players creeping through the dino-infested jungles of Skull Island like the puny humans they are. And if you get bored with being small, you can, yes, play as the big guy himself...
...important U.S. market. And outside shareholders, including venture-capital firms Benchmark and Index Ventures, are growing impatient. But for the moment, the firm is betting that virtue will bring its own reward--in Australia if not in the U.S. Last month the government of the Australian island of Tasmania said it will allow online-betting exchanges, opening the door for Betfair to a huge market that it had resisted tapping illegally...
Beyond an island of light downtown, most of Orleans Parish is still in the dark. Of the city's eight hospitals pre-Katrina, only two are open to serve a population that swells to 150,000 during the day. The public school system--destroyed by back-to-back hurricanes--is in limbo while the state considers a takeover and charter-school advocates vie for abandoned facilities. One lone public school for 500 students is set to open this week...
Wally Szczerbiak, the starting small forward of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves, was extremely close to attending Harvard in 1995. Sullivan was one of the chief wooers of the 6’7 scoring machine from Cold Spring Harbor High School on Long Island...