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Exit Polls to Protect the Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/weekinreview/17plis.html
By MARTIN PLISSNER
Published: October 17, 2004
WASHINGTON - Since the 1960's, the exit poll, that staple of
election-night television, has been used along with other tools to
declare winners when the polls close in each state, and its accuracy
is noted later when the actual vote count proves it right. A landmark
exception, of course, came in 2000, when the networks initially gave
the decisive Florida vote to Al Gore.
But now exit polls are being used in some places to monitor the
official vote count itself, either to validate the outcome or to mount
a challenge to it.
Martin Plissner
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Who'd Be In, Who'd Be Out
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/weekinreview/17sang.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By DAVID E. SANGER
If President Bush is re-elected, would a second term be marked by
pre-emption on steroids, unilateralism in a silken glove, or
alliance-building?
David Sanger
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Speaking in the Tongue of Evangelicals
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/weekinreview/17kirk.html
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: October 17, 2004
TO liberal lawyers and history buffs, it was a head-scratcher. Did
President Bush mean to oppose slavery by pledging in the presidential
debates not to appoint the kind of Supreme Court justices who decided
the Dred Scott case, the 1857 decision that upheld the fugitive slave
law?
To conservative Christian opponents of abortion, Mr. Bush's reference
was clear as a bell: opposing Dred Scott is shorthand for opposing Roe
v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established abortion
rights. One day, many social conservatives assert, Roe v. Wade, just
like Dred Scott, will be overturned as an erroneous violation of basic
human rights.
David Kirkpatrick
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Dred Scott
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It's Sort of Like a, You Know, Rorschach Test
By GEOFFREY NUNBERG
Published: October 17, 2004
IF style is the image of character, as Edward Gibbon said, it's never
so revealing as with little unconscious conversational twitches.
Take John Kerry's habit of hedging his words with "sort of." In the
first debate he used the expression or its close cousin "kind of"
seven times, as in "That, I think, is one of the most serious sort of
reversals or mixed messages that you could possibly send." President
Bush used the phrases just twice.
Geoffrey Nunberg
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Without a Doubt
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By RON SUSKIND
What makes Bush's presidency so radical - even to some Republicans -
is his preternatural, faith-infused certainty in uncertain times.
Ron Suskind
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Our Electors, Ourselves
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17WWLN.html
By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
Can the Electoral College survive the decline of the states?
Christopher Caldwell
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Too Immature for the Death Penalty?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17IDEA.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By PAUL RAEBURN
Brain researchers have a new argument against executing teenagers:
they are not yet wired for adult decision making.
Paul Raeburn
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Damned Old Graham Greene
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17COVTHER.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By PAUL THEROUX
Norman Sherry's biography is invaluable as an intellectual and
political history of the 20th century and fascinating as a rogues'
gallery.
THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE
Volume Three: 1955-1991.
By Norman Sherry.
Illustrated. 906 pp. Viking. $39.95.
Graham Greene
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'Chain of Command': What Geneva Conventions?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17IGNATIE.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
Seymour Hersh explains how the United States came to violate the very
rights it promised to restore in Iraq.
CHAIN OF COMMAND
The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
By Seymour M. Hersh.
394 pp. HarperCollins Publishers. $36.95.
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Geneva convention
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'Of Grunge and Government': Smells Like Civic Spirit
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17VOWELL.html
By SARAH VOWELL
Detailing his path from Nirvana bass player to citizen politico, Krist
Novoselic offers specific platforms for electoral reform.
OF GRUNGE AND GOVERNMENT
Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!
By Krist Novoselic.
103 pp. RDV Books. Paper, $9.95.
'The Five Books of Moses': From God's Mouth to English
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17SHULEVI.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JUDITH SHULEVITZ
In Robert Alter's remarkable translation we can see the original
writer's horror: Is this what God meant?
THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES
A Translation With Commentary.
By Robert Alter.
1,064 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $39.95.
Robert Alter
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Moses
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'The Ancestor's Tale': You Are Here
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17ZIMMERL.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: October 17, 2004
I once attended a conference about systematics -- the classification
of species -- and felt as if I were looking at Mount Rushmore with a
magnifying glass. The names alone -- Tetraconata, Amoebozoa,
Ecdysozoa, Oomycota, Neomeniomorpha -- were overwhelming. Speaker
after speaker hypothesized about how various species were related --
whether springtails or bristletails were the closest relatives of
winged insects, whether sponges all descended from a common ancestor,
whether slime molds are really molds. I stumbled out of the lecture
hall desperate for the big picture. And suddenly I saw it, on a
five-foot-square poster taped to a wall.
THE ANCESTOR'S TALE
A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.
By Richard Dawkins.
Illustrated. 673 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company. $28.
Richard Dawkins
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'Miles Gone By': Bill and God's Excellent Adventure
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17MECHAML.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JON MEACHAM
Published: October 17, 2004
It is a long-ago afternoon in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and Trish Buckley has
just won a blue ribbon in the annual Dutchess County Horse Show. In a
box next to Trish's parents sits Franklin D. Roosevelt, squire of
neighboring Hyde Park and president of the United States. ''Protocol
requires the winner to ride around the ring to receive the plaudits of
the spectators,'' Trish's brother recalls. ''When she rode by the
president's box, F.D.R. applauded lustily, whereupon Trish abruptly
turned her pigtailed head to one side.'' Arriving shortly thereafter
in the Buckley box, bearing her ribbon and her riding crop, Trish
faced her curious -- and somewhat embarrassed -- father. ''Why didn't
you nod to the president?'' he asked. The girl's face was ''pained
with surprise'' as she replied, ''I thought you didn't like him!''
MILES GONE BY
A Literary Autobiography.
By William F. Buckley Jr.
Illustrated. 594 pp. Regnery Publishing. $29.95.
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