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...weekends, Johnston carts staff and press to events, sometimes getting back just in time to rush to class...
...Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona told the press that Bush administration officials tried to suppress public health reports, including one on the dangers of secondhand smoke, for political reasons. Carmona was also required to mention Bush’s name three times in each page of his speeches, and was even told he couldn’t attend the Special Olympics because the organization was supported by the Kennedys. Needless to say, Carmona was not asked to serve a second term...
...press time, 526 voters had signed up, and 77 voters have rated their experiences, mostly about voting absentee or vote-by-mail. The majority of the ratings have been positive, though one voter in New York and another in Pennsylvania reported that their voting experiences have been less than satisfactory...
...like to offer a few words in defense of the undecided voter, if only because she - about 63% of this year's undecideds are women, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - is entirely uninfected by that great enemy of deliberative democracy: wild-eyed enthusiasm. Unlike the freakishly devoted Obama acolytes and those rabid, occasionally obscenity-shouting McCain-Palin fans, the undecided voter is taking her time. She's also one of the few Americans whose vote this year could actually be decisive, since some polls in swing states like Florida and Missouri show the undecided...
...losing the presidential election to President Bill Clinton and he knew it, so he decided to end his campaign in style, thaw his icy relationship with the press, and start having fun. "He'd rumble back to the back of the plane, and we'd hear the laughter up in the front," remembers Sheila Burke, Dole's former chief of staff. "There was a looseness about...