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  • And If You Think About It, Carmela Is Kind of Like A Budget Reauthorization Supplemental

    Holly Bailey | Jun 11, 2007 02:27 PM

    Your Gaggler could probably spend all day long talking about last night's series finale of "The Sopranos." And truth be told, she pretty much has. (Sorry, boss.) We won't even begin to pick through what it all meant: Did Tony die? Did Tony live? And what was up with that cat? (Adriana lives, people!) Suffice to say, one of the best moments of the night had to have been A.J.'s reaction upon seeing his $30,000 SUV explode in flames because he parked it on leaves during an impromptu hook-up with a high school sweetie. According to A.J., it was just as well. "We need to break our dependence on foreign oil," he declared. President Bush couldn't have said it better. (And Bush even made a cameo--dancing. As did Karl Rove. Talk about a lasting legacy.) At least we're not the only ones consumed. Even the folks cruising the Free Republic forums have found a way to bring the debate full circle. "There is no way that Tony Soprano can be killed," one Free Republic reader wrote. "He is like immigration reform, too much at stake for too many people."

    Update: Hillary gets in on the action:


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  • Want a Challenge? Try Supporting a Candidate Other Than Mitt Romney at BYU. Just Try It.

    Newsweek Interns | Jun 11, 2007 02:24 PM

    By Ruth Olson

    It would be stating the obvious to say that Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a lot of support at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. But the former Massachusetts governor isn't the only pol drawing support on the campus of 27,000 full-time undergraduate students, 98 percent of them members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    David Garber, a BYU student from Virginia, recently started a club to promote the candidacy of Republican Ron Paul. The group isn't an official campus club yet, so his activities have been limited. Garber admits it has been somewhat difficult getting started; so far he has half a dozen members in his group. "We're pretty optimistic," says Garber, who believes Paul's policies are a better fit with mainstream Utah values than Romney's.

    Lauren Clough, who's heading up a group in support of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, says the school administration has been supportive, but that doesn't always hold true of the students. "It is hard, and it can be frustrating, because people can be mean about it," she says. But then again, she said, she's always liked a challenge.

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  • For Immediate Release: Like Historic Horse, Hillary Is Woman, Winner

    Eleanor Clift | Jun 11, 2007 02:22 PM
    Republican Mary Matalin says she is often asked whether she's ever changed her husband's mind about anything, and the answer is yes--keeping pets and rescuing animals. Matalin and her rabidly Democratic husband, James Carville, were the honored guests at the Washington Humane Society's annual Bark Ball on Saturday night. The black-tie event is unique because four-legged guests are welcome and attendees traditionally bring canine escorts. Several hundred dogs were in attendance, many of them rescue animals. Matalin and Carville, accompanied by their five dogs and their two daughters, took the stage for brief remarks. Carville grew up in Louisiana, where animals were more for shooting and eating, Matalin observed. But he's come around. Carville said he was asked recently on a talk show whether he'd ever owned a gun. He said yes. Asked if he hunts, he said no. "My family would kill me." He told of raising a pig to show at a 4-H event, but the pig somehow broke its leg. His daughter wanted to know what he did with the pig. "We ate it," he said. She didn't talk to him for three weeks. The Bark Ball raises money for the Washington Humane Society, which treats 20,000 abandoned and abused animals a year. Partisan politics were set aside for the night, except Carville did note that the winner of the Belmont Stakes earlier in the day was a filly--the first time in a hundred years. He said he wouldn't be surprised if Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton's flamboyant finance chairman, commandeered the horse for a Hillary fund-raiser. The campaign did put out a "HillGram" on the historical omen. More
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