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3 days ago · An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former vice president of the United States Al Gore 's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.
2 days ago · Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...
2 days ago · The risqué lyrics of "Darling Nikki" raised complaints from Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center and contributed to the implementation of Parental Advisory stickers and imprints on album covers. Purple Rain became Prince's first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200.
5 days ago · Bush v. Gore, legal case, decided on December 12, 2000, in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed an order by the Florida Supreme Court for a selective manual recount of that state’s U.S. presidential election ballots.
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- Bush v. Gore was a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court in which that court reversed a Florida Supreme Court request for a selective manual rec...
- On December 12, 2000, in a 7–2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Florida Supreme Court’s decision that manual recounts of ballots shoul...
- The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore terminated the recount process in Florida in the U.S. presidential election of 2000. With the elect...
3 days ago · The family of a man who was murdered by two 12-year-old boys have revealed the emotional anguish caused by his death. Their statement came as the boys, now 13, appeared in court for the start of a...
2 days ago · EZRA KLEIN: Or Tipper Gore. Right. EMILY JASHINSKY: Right. EZRA KLEIN: One thing that I notice is that it is not that a lot of the people we’re talking about aren’t religious.
3 days ago · Therefore, in her eyes, Cio-Cio-San is a caricature, a degrading portrayal (the submissive Asian female, of course), and this has led her on a crusade to clean up this and other such operas (a Tipper Gore for the modern age), although she does stop just short of calling for “Madame Butterfly” to be shelved: “Eliminating the work from the ...
