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6:31 am
Thu October 18, 2012

New Yorker Waits To Cash Winning Lottery Ticket

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Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 11:11 am

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The Two-Way
6:18 am
Thu October 18, 2012

Week After Latest Death Rumors, Cubans Get Letter From Fidel Castro

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Former Cuban President Fidel Castro in March, when Pope Benedict XVI visited Havana.
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One week after the latest rumors of his death, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has emerged — sort of — in a letter he's said to have written.

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Election 2012
6:10 am
Thu October 18, 2012

Republican Governors Gear Up For Election Gains

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivers the keynote address during last month's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Christie's election in 2009 was part of the first wave of Republican gubernatorial victories.
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell won one of two governorships that the GOP picked up in 2009.
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While the presidential election consumes the nation's attention, the Republican Party is poised to expand its dominance of state politics with this year's contests for governor.

If predictions of strategists in both parties and polling prove correct, the November elections could give the Republicans their highest number of governors in 91 years.

Among the current governors, 29 are Republicans, 20 Democrats and one is an independent. Next month, Republican candidates could take away as many as five governorships from Democrats.

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Book Reviews
6:03 am
Thu October 18, 2012

Assaying The Legacy Of 'The Big Screen'

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David Thomson is the author of more than 20 books, including Have You Seen ... ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
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Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 8:56 am

"The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie," admits Binx Bolling, the hero of Walker Percy's 1961 novel The Moviegoer. It's the same for a lot of us — cinema affects us in ways we don't always understand, and even the worst films appeal to our nostalgia and sense memories in manners that defy the normal rules of taste and logic. (Currently, on my DVR: La Dolce Vita, a classic I know I should see at some point, and Gymkata, a truly terrible 1985 martial-arts flick I've watched a dozen times.

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Analysis
5:49 am
Thu October 18, 2012

Debate Polls Indicate Obama Impressed Viewers

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Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 11:11 am

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And the Governor is one of many politicians from both parties who we're hearing from in this election season. Was it the town hall or a town brawl? That's what some pundits are asking a day after the very heated second presidential debate, between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

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