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• Politics, Palin good for ‘Saturday Night Live’
NEW YORK - The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers. "SNL" averaged a 7.4 household rating/18 ...
• N.Y. card collection includes 6,356 decks
NEW YORK - The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century Portuguese politics. Columbia University has a collection of playing cards that is among the world's largest, a trove ...
• U.S. space tourist blasts off in Soyuz rocket
Perminov said recent U.S. congressional decisions on future collaboration and the presence of U.S. astronauts at the launch site in Kazakhstan showed that politics would not block cooperation. Congress earlier this month gave NASA permission to ...
• Gay marriage ban attracts big money in Calif.
According to figures compiled by the National Organization on Money in State Politics, a little less than $33 million was spent on campaigns to pass or defeat gay marriage bans in the 24 states where they appeared on ballots in 2004, 2005 and 2006 ...
• Austrian politician Haider dies in car crash
Over the summer, he staged a comeback in national politics and helped his Alliance for the Future of Austria significantly improve their standing in Sept. 28 national elections. Haider and his supporters broke away from the Freedom Party in 2005 to ...