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...Capitol Hill, a heated partisan debate is being waged over whether to use statistical sampling in the 2000 census, a method which minority leaders say would more accurately count underrepresented groups...
...Starr Method, invented and deployed in Washington, has made its way to the states. Call it the Starr Devolution. In South Carolina this week, allies of Jim Hodges, the Democrat running against G.O.P. Governor David Beasley, plan to ask Beasley about--you guessed it--infidelity. In a political twist that surely has both parties' elders shuddering, the Democrats will attempt to depose Beasley on Thursday at a law office just a few blocks from the Governor's office. A Democratic Party lawyer, Cameron Lewis, tells TIME he has no intention of subjecting Beasley to the kind of detailed grand jury...
...efforts to evolve from a comic actor into a thespian, JIM CARREY may be taking this Method-acting thing a tad too far. Recently, we reported that on the set of the ANDY KAUFMAN biopic Man on the Moon, Carrey asked for two separate trailers, one to play Kaufman and one to play Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Last week, while filming a scene with wrestler Jerry Lawler, a bruiser who once put Kaufman in a neck brace, Carrey spontaneously spit on the wrestler in an unscripted move. Lawler, apparently also deep in character, charged Carrey...
...charge of stock brokerage, contends. He has gone to war against Internet trading in a series of public speeches, chronicled last week in the Wall Street Journal, urging individuals to abandon their free-trading ways and stick with the good old-fashioned (and expensive) hand-holding, broker-to-client method at which Merrill Lynch excels--and on which it is betting its future...
Murphy said The Coop wanted to create a method of payment that was better or commensurate to the Coop Credit Card, a private card program The Coop discontinued last year in favor of a Coop Visa card offered by First...