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...left, double pumps, and drains a floating fifteen-footer with a defender in his face. Craig Ehlo was the one guarding Jordan, and on the previous play he had made a lay-up to give the Cavs a 100-99 lead in Game 5 of the first round of the 1989 NBA playoffs. Jordan’s shot at the buzzer handed Cleveland its second consecutive Game 5 loss to the Bulls. The Cavs picked probably the worst time to put together its best team ever, and had their season ended by Jordan’s Bulls on four occasions...
Trading for Jeff Garcia and drafting Kellen Winslow led some to believe the Browns were primed to finally capture the AFC North, and a dominating performance against Baltimore in Week 1 had many thinking beyond the first round of the playoffs. Then the old familiar miasma again rose from her cozy quarters in the depths of Lake Erie and fell upon the Brownies in full force. Week 2 saw Winslow break his foot (done for the year) and Courtney “Band-Aid” Brown come down with yet another malady (also done for the year). Honestly...
...instant runoff election—so-called because the majority winner is determined from a single round of voting—the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated from contention, and the voters who voted for this candidate have their second-choice votes awarded to remaining candidates. Successive eliminations and vote redistributions occur until there are only two candidates left, at which point one will have a majority of votes...
...been shown to be vulnerable to tampering, to break down and to lose votes or record none at all. Worse, in every state where they are used except Nevada, the machines produce no paper trail of votes. And e-voting machines can't do recounts. On a second go-round, they simply repeat the outcome they offered the first time...
...least the Bush foreign policy has a patina of idealism. The President's economic policy does not. All previous rules of fiscal responsibility have been tossed aside. A round of tax cuts was, perhaps, a justifiable response to the recession in 2001. But those cuts were followed willy-nilly by a second round and, worse, by a blizzard of monster concessions to corporate interests. A recent example is instructive: this month Congress hilariously transformed the closing of a $5 billion tax break for exporters, which was required by a World Trade Organization ruling, into a $137 billion luau for special...