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SOFIA, Bulgaria ? The ruling conservative party's candidate declared victory Sunday in Bulgaria's presidential run-off after exit polls indicated he had won handily and his Socialist challenger conceded defeat.
A win by Rosen Plevneliev means the ruling GERB party now controls all the major posts in Bulgaria, which will bolster its push for painful economic reforms in the struggling country, where the average monthly salary is euro350 ($485) and unemployment is 11.7 percent.
An exit poll, conducted by the Alpha Research agency, gave Plevneliev 54.8 percent of the votes, while indicating 45.2 percent of voters cast ballots for Ivailo Kalfin. Two other exit polls showed a similar margin. The Central Election Commission estimated turnout at 42 percent.
Official results are due Monday, but Kalfin conceded defeat after the exit polling. "The result is clear ? we did not win the elections," he said.
Although most of the power in corruption-plagued Bulgaria, a Balkan country of 7.4 million, rests with the prime minister and Parliament, the president leads the armed forces and can veto legislation and sign international treaties.
The 47-year-old Plevneliev is a former entrepreneur who has been lauded for pushing through several large-scale infrastructure projects as regional development minister in the incumbent Cabinet. He has pledged to reduce the budget deficit and pursue business-friendly policies.
He also said he would do his best to unite Bulgarians in pursuit of reforms in the judicial and health care systems, while also diversifying energy supplies and improving trade.
"Bulgaria's European future means that the president should guarantee equal chances for the development of all regions in the country," Plevneliev said Sunday.
Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, meanwhile, said that by electing Plevneliev, "Bulgarians supported Bulgaria's stability and its European development."
The winner of the contest replaces Georgi Parvanov, a former leader of the Socialist Party who has often criticized the government and used his powers to veto legislation or key judicial office or diplomatic service appointments. Parvanov has served two five-year terms, the legal limit.
If final results confirm Plevneliev as the winner, he would take office Jan. 23.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) ? Batsman Suresh Raina and spinner Harbhajan Singh have been axed from India's 15-man squad for the first test against West Indies next month, the national cricket board said on Friday.
The selectors made a slew of changes to the squad that was whitewashed 4-0 on the recent tour to England but Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh were named after recovering from injury.
India also dropped leg-break bowler Amit Mishra and selected spin trio Pragyan Ojha, Ravichandran Ashwin and Rahul Sharma.
Ashwin is uncapped at test level while Sharma has yet to represent India in any form of cricket.
The 31-year-old Harbhajan, who has taken more than 400 test wickets, struggled in England and claimed two wickets in the first two tests before an abdominal strain cut short his tour.
He was also dropped from this month's one-day squad for the 5-0 home victory over England.
In the pace bowling department, Praveen Kumar and Shantakumaran Sreesanth make way for uncapped pair Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron.
India will play three tests against West Indies. The first match in Delhi starts on Nov. 6.
Squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Vangipurappu Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Rahul Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Virat Kohli, Varun Aaron.
(Editing by Tony Jimenez; To query or comment on this story, email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
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BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 photo, a road sign pointing to the town of Tawergha, a former bastion of support for Moammar Gadhafi, has been painted over with "Misrata," in Arabic, as part of score-settling following Libya's eight-month civil war. Tawergha's roughly 25,000 residents have fled, fearing retribution from the neighboring city of Misrata who suffered at the hands of Tawergha during the war and now vow not to let anyone return there. (AP Photo/Walid Mukhtar)
BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 photo, a road sign pointing to the town of Tawergha, a former bastion of support for Moammar Gadhafi, has been painted over with "Misrata," in Arabic, as part of score-settling following Libya's eight-month civil war. Tawergha's roughly 25,000 residents have fled, fearing retribution from the neighboring city of Misrata who suffered at the hands of Tawergha during the war and now vow not to let anyone return there. (AP Photo/Walid Mukhtar)
TAWERGHA, Libya (AP) ? This town once loyal to Moammar Gadhafi is no more: its 25,000 residents have fled, fearing retribution from vengeful victors from the neighboring city of Misrata who have burned and ransacked homes, crossed out Tawergha's name on road signs and vowed not to let anyone return.
Tawergha, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Misrata, is just one casualty of score-settling following Libya's 8-month civil war that ended with Gadhafi's Oct. 20 capture and death.
The country's interim leaders have appealed for restraint, but seem unable to control revolutionary forces whose recent vigilante acts, including the suspected killing of Gadhafi while in custody, have begun to tarnish their heroic image abroad.
A Western diplomat said Libya's new leaders need to come out more strongly against the culture of revenge, and hold the former fighters accountable for their actions.
Failure to resolve such conflicts and bring regime supporters, including in the badly damaged loyalist towns of Sirte and Bani Walid, into the fold could destabilize Libya and hamper the attempted transition to democracy, the diplomat warned, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive subject matter.
However, people in Misrata, which was heavily damaged during the war, are in no mood for reconciliation. The port city of 300,000 rose up early against Gadhafi and came under a weekslong siege by Gadhafi fighters, many from Tawergha which served as a staging ground for the loyalists. Nearly 1,300 Misrata residents were killed and thousands wounded in the fighting, city officials say.
Misrata officials have accused the Tawerghans, some of them descendants of African slaves, of particular brutality during the war, including alleged acts of rape and looting. During the siege, Gadhafi fighters sniped at residents from roof tops and shelled the city indiscriminately.
Ibrahim Beitelmal, spokesman for Misrata's military council, said he believes Tawergha should be wiped off the map, but that the final decision is up to the national leadership. "If it was my decision, I would want to see Tawergha gone. It should not exist," said Beitelmal, whose 19-year-old son was killed in the fighting on Tripoli Street.
Misrata fighters captured Tawergha in mid-August, just days before the fall of the capital Tripoli dealt a fatal blow to the Gadhafi regime and forced the dictator into hiding in his hometown of Sirte.
Most of Tawergha's residents fled as the Misrata brigades approached, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
For the past two months, Tawergha has been a ghost town, with access roads blocked by earthen mounds and other obstacles. Road signs pointing to Tawergha have been painted over. Misrata brigades have scribbled slogans on the walls of abandoned homes.
"The Tawergha are the rats of Gadhafi," read graffiti on one facade, using Gadhafi's derogatory name for his opponents. The fallen regime had tried to ensure Tawergha's loyalty with promises of jobs and investment, and while some of the homes there were ramshackle, the town also boasted a modern school, medical clinic and rows of new apartment buildings.
A tour of Tawergha on Friday showed widespread vandalism. The school, clinic, small shops and modern apartments had been ransacked, with some rooms burned and contents of closets strewn on the ground. Human Rights Watch researchers have said Tawergha homes have been set on fire since the town's capture, and the group is to release an extensive report Sunday.
Two Misrata fighters driving through Tawergha on Friday said the town's residents are no longer welcome. "They will have to find a different place and build houses there," said 22-year-old Naji Akhlaf, standing outside a small grocery that had been largely emptied out, with cartons of juice strewn across the entrance.
"This is the best solution so we can relax and get on with our lives," he said.
Tawerghans also lived in other parts of Libya, including in Misrata where a rundown apartment complex that once housed hundreds of them is to be razed. City officials say the complex is also home to non-Tawerghans and is being torn down because it's unsanitary and unsafe. Tawerghans have fled those apartments and their neighbors said they won't allow them back.
About 10,000 Tawerghans have reached two camps on the outskirts of the eastern city of Benghazi, until recently the seat of the National Transitional Council, and U.N. officials say that number is growing. Thousands more have sought refuge near Tripoli, Tarhouna and in remote areas of the south.
An NTC-funded aid group, LibAid, is providing food and other supplies to some of the displaced, said Mohammed el-Sweii, an official in the group. El-Sweii said guards have been stationed at the camps to prevent acts of revenge, amid reports that Misrata fighters have gone to great lengths to track down and capture Tawerghans in Gadhafi's employ.
A similar conflict has been brewing between the town of Zintan in Libya's western mountain range and the nomadic Mushashya tribe which settled nearby after being awarded land by Gadhafi several decades ago.
The Mushashya sided with the dictator in the civil war and fled their homes with retreating Gadhafi forces in the summer. Zintan officials said at the time they would not let the Mushashya return to their homes which, as in Tawergha, had been ransacked and in some cases burned. The U.N. said some 8,700 Mushashya have been reported displaced.
Aid officials believe it's unlikely the Tawergha and Mushashya will be able to return home anytime soon because emotions are still running high.
Tens of thousands who fled Bani Walid and Sirte, the two last Gadhafi bastions to fight the revolutionary forces during the war, likely stand a better chance, once their towns have been rendered habitable again. The two towns are home to the Warfala, Libya's largest tribe with some 1 million members, or one-sixth of the population.
Many former rebels are also Warfala and the sheer size of the tribe would likely protect its members against retribution.
Richard Sollom, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights, said the interim government must quickly establish the rule of law and allow investigators from the International Criminal Court to examine allegations of war crimes by both sides.
Libya's interim leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, has called for restraint, specifically mentioning the Misrata-Tawergha and Zintan-Mushashya conflicts in a news conference earlier this month. He promised that those guilty of abuses during the war would eventually be punished by the authorities, though it's unclear how quickly a justice system could be set up.
"Taking the lives of people in an illegal manner will set back our revolution," he warned at the time. "The law should be the decisive factor and ... we must believe God will dispense justice in the appropriate manner."
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Associated Press writer Rami al-Shaheibi in Misrata, Libya, contributed to this report.
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Campaign buttons for Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain are seen on sale as he campaigned in Talladega, Ala., Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Campaign buttons for Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain are seen on sale as he campaigned in Talladega, Ala., Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Before Smoking Man, there was Obama Girl. And who can forget Jib Jab?
A new ad featuring Herman Cain's smoking campaign manager Mark Block is the latest political video to become an overnight web sensation. The ad, with Block taking a deep drag on a cigarette while Cain flashes a Cheshire cat grin, has had close to 1 million clicks on Cain's website since its debut last week. It's also aired repeatedly on cable news shows and become the subject of countless parodies.
Online viral videos have become a staple of American politics. Not long ago, pricey paid television ads were the only way for candidates to be noticed. Now, anyone with a good idea and an Internet connection can generate buzz in the presidential contest.
"The most important thing to appreciate about viral videos is they really reduce the power of traditional media gatekeepers," said Stephen Farnsworth, an associate professor of communications at George Mason University in Virginia. "The decisions of what the public could see used to be in the control of TV executives. The Web gives people the ability to send messages horizontally. You see something you like, you put it on YouTube."
Some widely disseminated videos have been harmless fun such as the ad produced by digital studio Jib Jab in 2004 showing rivals George W. Bush and John Kerry singing a hilarious rendition of "This Land."
Others have had a deeper impact, including Tina Fey's scathing depiction of 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as an ill-informed lightweight. Those sketches first appeared on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" but were widely shared online.
Cain, a little-known former Godfather's Pizza executive before joining the 2012 GOP race, has seen his popularity spike recently after a series of debates and his much-discussed 9-9-9 tax plan. The smoking man ad, with its low production values and quirky imagery, has added to the sense of novelty about Cain's candidacy and was distributed almost for free.
In an interview with CNN on Friday, Block said Cain had raised $3 million in October in part because of the video's popularity.
"That's what we're seeing in our grassroots activism growth and obviously in the YouTube thing," Block said.
President Barack Obama, cast as the innovative newcomer when he joined the Democratic field in 2008, has experienced the upside and downside of being a Web video sensation.
The Obama Girl video, in which a fetching young woman sang about her crush on the then-Illinois senator, went viral early in the campaign and reinforced the notion of Obama as the cool and sexy alternative to his more established Democratic rival, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton briefly reclaimed the online spotlight when news footage of her welling up at a New Hampshire coffee shop was widely circulated. She narrowly beat Obama in that state's first-in-the-nation primary.
Obama fans struck back with the "Yes We Can" video, produced by the Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am and featuring celebrities such as actress Scarlett Johansson. It was an online hit and revived Obama's image as the hip and trendy candidate after he lost New Hampshire.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, Obama's general election rival in 2008, sought to turn such gushing testimonials back on the Democrat. Strapped for cash that summer as a confident Obama toured Europe, McCain's campaign released a video comparing Obama to starlets Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
"He's the biggest celebrity in the world," the ad said mockingly. It quickly went viral and became the talk of cable news.
Obama's campaign also experienced a crisis when videos surfaced of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, shouting anti-American slogans from the pulpit. The videos generated questions about Obama's faith and status as the first major black presidential candidate, forcing him to deliver a major speech on race relations.
The campaign later found itself on the defensive again after news clips of Obama fist-bumping with his wife, Michelle, were widely distributed, as well as a sound bite from Michelle Obama saying her husband's candidacy made her proud of the United State "for the first time in my adult life." Critics seized on the videos as evidence of the Obamas' "otherness" or lack of patriotism.
Ken Goldstein, whose Campaign Media Analysis Group tracks political advertising, said that while online videos had the power to influence a race, paid television advertising still carried much more overall impact.
"The Internet preaches to the choir," Goldstein said. "It's a great way to raise money and mobilize supporters to work harder, which are not trivial things. But viral videos are not a way to mobilize passive and undecided voters, which television ads do."
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Getty ImagesAlbert Pujols, center,?and the St. Louis Cardinals celebrate in the locker room after defeating the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7 on Friday.
By BEN WALKER
updated 11:22 p.m. ET Oct. 28, 2011
ST. LOUIS - Albert Pujols thrust both arms high in the air, even before he reached home plate.
It was only the first inning, and already it felt as if the St. Louis Cardinals were home free. Because after they had overcome so much just to get this far, what could stop them?
The Cardinals won a remarkable World Series they weren't even supposed to reach, beating the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7 on Friday night with another key hit by hometown star David Freese and six gutty innings from Chris Carpenter.
Pushed to the brink, the Cardinals kept saving themselves. A frantic rush to reach the postseason on the final day. A nifty pair of comebacks in the playoffs. Two desperate rallies in Game 6.
"This whole ride, this team deserves this," said Freese, who added the Series MVP award to his trophy as the NL championship MVP.
A day after an epic game that saw them twice within one strike of elimination before winning 10-9 in 11 innings, the Cardinals captured their 11th World Series crown.
"It's hard to explain how this happened," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said.
Following a whole fall on the edge, including a surge from 10? games down in the wild-card race, La Russa's team didn't dare mess with Texas, or any more drama in baseball's first World Series Game 7 since the Angels beat Giants in 2002.
Freese's two-run double tied it in the first, with Pujols celebrating as he scored. Good-luck charm Allen Craig hit a go-ahead homer in the third.
Given a chance to pitch by a Game 6 rainout and picked by La Russa earlier in the day to start on three days' rest, Carpenter and the tireless St. Louis bullpen closed it out.
No Rally Squirrel needed on this night, either. Fireworks and confetti rang out at Busch Stadium when Jason Motte retired David Murphy on a fly ball to end it.
"We just kept playing," Cardinals star Lance Berkman said.
Said La Russa: "If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back."
The Rangers, meanwhile, will spend the whole winter wondering how it all got away. Texas might dwell on it forever, in fact, or at least until Nolan Ryan & Co. can reverse a World Series slide that started with last year's five-game wipeout against San Francisco.
"We were close. Two times. Game 6. That's it," Texas pitcher Colby Lewis said.
Ryan left tightlipped. When a reporter tried to ask the Rangers president and part-owner a question, someone in his entourage said: "He's not talking."
Texas had not lost consecutive games since last August. These two defeats at Busch Stadium cost manager Ron Washington and the Rangers a chance to win their first title in the franchise's 51-year history.
Instead, Texas became the first team to lose the Series two straight years since Atlanta in 1991-92.
"Sometimes when opportunity is in your presence, you certainly can't let it get away because sometimes it takes a while before it comes back," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "If there's one thing that happened in this World Series that I'll look back on is being so close, just having one pitch to be made and one out to be gotten, and it could have been a different story."
Added Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre: "We tried to come back today, but the momentum just took them."
"It's not a nice feeling, you know, being one strike away twice. I guess it's probably easier to lose four games in a row in a World Series, but being a strike away it's something that will be hard to forget," he said.
This marked the ninth straight time the home team had won Game 7 in the World Series. The wild-card Cardinals held that advantage over the AL West champions because the NL won the All-Star game ? Texas could blame that on their own pitcher, C.J. Wilson, who took the loss in July.
A year full of inspiring rallies and epic collapses was encapsulated in Game 6. Freese was the star, with a tying triple in the ninth and a winning home run in the 11th. His two RBIs in the clincher gave him a postseason record 21.
The Cardinals won their first championship since 2006, and gave La Russa his third World Series title. They got there by beating Philadelphia in the first round of the NL playoffs, capped by Carpenter outdueling Roy Halladay 1-0 in the deciding Game 5, and then topping Milwaukee in the NL championship series.
"I think the last month of the season, that's where it started," Pujols said. "Different guys were coming huge, getting big hits, and we carried that into the postseason and here we are, world champions."
By the time Yadier Molina drew a bases-loaded walk from starter Matt Harrison and Rafael Furcal was hit by a pitch from Wilson in relief, the crowd began to sense a championship was near.
The Cardinals improved to 8-3 in Game 7s of the Series, more wins than any other club. Yet fans here know their history well, and were aware this game could go either way ? Dizzy Dean and the Gas House Gang won 11-0 in 1934, but Whitey Herzog and his Cardinals lost 11-0 in 1985.
On this evening, all the stars aligned for St. Louis.
Starting in place of injured Matt Holliday, Craig hit his third homer of the Series and made a leaping catch at the top of the left field wall. Molina made another strong throw to nail a stray runner. And Carpenter steeled himself to pitch into the seventh, every bit an ace.
"It was in our grasp and we didn't get it," Washington said, referring to Game 6. "Tonight we fought hard for it and the Cardinals got it."
Pujols went 0 for 2, walked and was hit by a pitch in what could have been his last game with the Cardinals. Many think the soon-to-be free agent will remain in St. Louis.
"You know what? I'm not even thinking about that. I'm thinking about, you know, we're the world champions and I'm going to celebrate and whenever that time comes, you know, then we'll deal with it," he said.
Pujols did plenty of damage. His three-homer job in Game 3 was the signature performance of his career and perhaps the greatest hitting show in postseason history.
Dismissed by some as a dull Series even before it began because it lacked the big-market glamour teams, it got better inning by inning. Plus, a postseason first: A bullpen telephone mixup played a prominent role.
"I told you it was going to be a great series, and it was," Texas slugger Josh Hamilton said.
"I don't care what other people remember. We fell a little bit short," he said. "Hats off to the Cards, they did a great job, especially last night. It was actually fun to watch and fun to see. You hate it but it happened."
Craig hit a solo home run in the third, an opposite field fly to right that carried into the Cardinals bullpen and got their relievers dancing. The super-sub put St. Louis ahead 3-2 with his third homer of the Series. He was in the lineup only because Holliday sprained his right wrist on a pickoff play a night earlier and was replaced on the roster.
By then, the largest crowd at 6-year-old Busch Stadium was buzzing. The fans seemed a bit drained much earlier, maybe worn out from the previous night.
They grew hush in the first when Hamilton and Michael Young hit consecutive RBI doubles. Texas might have gotten more, but Ian Kinsler strayed too far off first base and was trapped by Molina's rocket throw.
Freese changed the mood in a hurry as St. Louis tied it in the bottom half. Pujols and Lance Berkman drew two-out walks and pitching coach Mike Maddux trotted to the mound while Freese stepped in to a standing ovation.
Freese rewarded his family and a ballpark full of new friends by lining a full-count floater to the wall in left center for a two-run double. Harrison was in trouble, and Wilson began warming up after only 23 pitches.
Carpenter wasn't sharp at the outset, either. All over the strike zone, he started seven of the first 10 batters with balls. Pitching coach Dave Duncan made a visit in the second to check on the tall righty, lingering for a few extra words.
"I was hoping to have an opportunity to go ahead and pitch in that game and fortunately it worked out," Carpenter said. "It started off a little rough in the first. But I was able to collect myself, make some pitches and our guys did an awesome job to battle back. And I mean, it's just amazing."
NOTES: Texas set a Series record by walking 41 batters, one more than Florida in 1997. Of the 34 runs the Cardinals scored, 11 reached on walks and two more on hit batters. ... The crowd was 47,399. ... The Cardinals will play the first game of the 2012 season in North America, opening the Miami Marlins' new ballpark on April 4.
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Five errors. Two wild pitches. The most obviously foreshadowed bunt into a double play in big-league history.
The Cardinals?scored in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings to beat the Rangers 10-9?and send the World Series to a Game?7, but?it wasn?t exactly a classic.
Sure, there were classic moments in Game 6, no doubt. David Freese?s game-tying triple with St. Louis down to its final strike in the bottom of the ninth, Josh Hamilton?s two-run shot in the 10th and Freese?s walkoff homer?gave us the most thrilling conclusion to a World Series game?in a decade. Also, the back-to-back homers from Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz in the seventh were huge, as?was Mike Napoli?s stunning pickoff of Matt Holliday to help preserve a tie for the Rangers in the sixth.
The final three innings was baseball as exciting as it can be. The first eight, well, they were rather iffy.
Freese, with his eyes closed, having a popup go off his glove (fortunately for him, it didn?t hit him in the head afterwards) would have?been a lasting image if not for the comeback. Holliday dropping an easy fly because he was worried Rafael Furcal?would run into him. Michael Young botching two plays at first base for Texas.
And there were non-errors. Freese certainly should have handled a foul popup in the third, but he was afraid of running into the wall. Nelson Cruz, likewise, was scared of the wall in right when he came up short on Freese?s two-run triple in the ninth.
There was also a mental boner. Shortstop Elvis Andrus turned in one in the eighth that could have cost the Rangers?the game prior to Freese?s heroics.
With one on and two out, Daniel Descalso hit a routine grounder to short in the eighth. The Rangers had him played to pull, so second baseman Ian Kinsler was shaded towards first. Still, Kinsler busted it over to second and would have retired Yadier Molina easily had Andrus made the throw there. Instead, Andrus looked to second, delayed and then threw a one-hopper to first too late to retire Descalso.
Jon Jay followed that was a single to right, loading the bases with the Cardinals down 7-5. The rally ended there, though. Furcal, maybe the easiest out of all of the ones the Cards have?sent to the plate in the series, tapped the first pitch back to the mound.
The bunt/double play?was even more gruesome. The Rangers had pitcher Colby Lewis coming up with runners on first and second and none out in the second. The Cards had no doubt that the bunt was coming and had Albert Pujols and Freese even with the mound?on the pitch and charging from there. Lewis missed the first bunt attempt and then connected on the second for?as routine of a double play as one will ever see in that situation.
Given the circumstances, manager Ron Washington should have just let him strike out. The Rangers got a run in the inning anyway, as Kinsler followed with an RBI double. They may well have added another one or two had Lewis made just one out instead of two.
Fortunately, the late-inning spectacle was glorious enough to erase some of the memories of the bad baseball that came before. And now both teams have a chance at redemption as we head into Game 7 on Friday.
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WASHINGTON ? The flat tax is making a comeback among Republican presidential candidates. But it faces tough opposition in Congress because it tends to favor the rich at the expense of other taxpayers, renewing an old debate about "trickle-down economics."
Most of the top GOP contenders ? Mitt Romney's an exception ? offer a variation of the tax plan in which everyone pays the same rate. Businessman Herman Cain has his 9-9-9 proposal, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled a 20 percent flat tax on income this week. Even Romney foresees a flatter tax system in the future, though he favors something closer to the current setup in the short term.
The idea of a flat tax has long been championed by conservative politicians as being simple and fair. Publisher Steve Forbes made it a centerpiece of his Republican presidential campaigns in 1996 and 2000. Forbes has endorsed Perry, calling his economic plan "the most exciting plan since (Ronald) Reagan's."
"American families deserve a system that is low, flat and fair," Perry wrote in his tax plan. "They should be able to file their taxes on a postcard instead of a massive novel-length document."
Conservative economists argue a flat tax would promote long-term economic growth by lowering taxes on the people who save and invest the greatest share of their income: the wealthy.
Lowering taxes on the wealthy, however, could prove politically difficult, especially now, with protesters around the country occupying public spaces and calling for the rich to pay more. President Barack Obama and many Democrats in Congress also want higher taxes for the highest-income Americans.
"It's all about political rhetoric," said William McBride, an economist the Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank. "The inevitable result of shifting the tax burden away from saving and investment is that you reduce the tax burden on the rich."
Liberals and many moderates complain that a flat tax is a giveaway to the rich, renewing an old debate over whether the benefits of tax cuts for those at the top trickle down to the rest of the population.
"This idea of lowering taxes on high-income people and somehow middle class people will benefit has been there for a long time," said Chuck Marr, director of federal tax policy at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "Obviously it hasn't worked very well."
Flat tax plans by both Cain and Perry have provisions to protect low-income families from tax increases. But that raises questions about who will be left to pay the tab, said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank.
"If you exempt the low-income people from higher taxes, if you cut the taxes for the wealthy, getting the same amount of revenue means the middle class are going to pay more, a lot more," Williams said.
The federal income tax currently has six marginal tax rates, also known as tax brackets. The lowest rate is 10 percent, and it applies to taxable income up to $17,000, for a married couple filing jointly. The top tax rate is 35 percent, on taxable income above $379,150.
"Taxable income" is income after deductions and exemptions, which can greatly reduce the amount that is taxed. There are also many tax credits that can further reduce tax bills.
In all, nearly half of U.S. households pay no federal income tax because their incomes are so low or because they qualify for so many tax breaks, according to the Tax Policy Center. Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 pay, on average, 7.2 percent of their income in federal income taxes.
By contrast, the top 10 percent of households, in terms of income, pay more than half of all federal taxes and more than 70 percent of federal income taxes, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Cain's plan would scrap most of the current tax system. He would eliminate the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare, and replace the progressive federal income tax with a flat 9 percent tax on income. He would lower the corporate income tax from 35 percent to 9 percent, and impose a new 9 percent national sales tax. The tax on capital gains would be eliminated.
The only income tax deductions allowed under Cain's original plan were for charitable contributions. He has since said people living below the poverty line ? $22,314 for a family of four ? would also be exempt from income tax.
Perry's plan would impose an optional 20 percent flat tax. Families could choose between the current tax structure and a new 20 percent tax on income, presumably picking the one that taxes them the least.
Perry's flat tax would preserve deductions for mortgage interest, charitable donations and state and local taxes. It also includes a $12,500 exemption for individuals and their dependents, meaning a family of four could make $50,000 and pay no federal income tax.
Perry's plan would reduce the corporate income tax from 35 percent to 20 percent and would eliminate the tax on dividends and long-term capital gains.
Romney's tax plan would initially maintain the current tax rates, extending sweeping tax cuts that were enacted under former President George W. Bush and extended through 2012 by Obama. Romney would eliminate taxes on capital gains, dividends and interest for taxpayers with adjusted gross income below $200,000. He would push to lower the corporate income tax from 35 percent to 25 percent.
In the long term, Romney would "pursue a conservative overhaul of the tax system that includes lower and flatter rates on a broader tax base."
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David Freese homered to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals forced the World Series to a Game 7 by rallying from two-run deficits against the Texas Rangers in the 9th and 10th on Thursday night.
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As Apple CEO Tim Cook noted again at last week's memorial service, Steve Jobs liked to say that he modeled his business after the Beatles. So it was interesting to have been around when the Beatles broke up, i.e., when Jobs was fired in the '80s from the company he so famously co-founded and led.
With memorials past and present and a new biography just out, Jobs is more omnipresent now than when he was among us. Perhaps that's only fitting. While he was an imperfect person, he may be a perfect icon.
When I encountered him in the early '80s, although it was not immediately apparent, Steve Jobs was coming to the end of his fabulous first act in life. The spectacular introduction of the Macintosh in January 1984, which proved to be as big a game changer as he and others thought at the time -- just not immediately and not immediately for Apple -- was followed in 1985 by the sensational ouster of Jobs.
In messianic mode, Steve Jobs unveils the original Macintosh computer for the first time, in January 1984 at Apple's annual meeting in Cupertino, California.
Always a disruptive force, a key to creativity, Jobs had become, in the regretful view of many who counted, a destructive force.
Jobs was only 30 when he was fired as head of the Macintosh Division and then forced out of Apple. His brilliance had spurred game-changing developments, but had run up against the limits of his expertise. And "I don't know" isn't something that's easy for a famous visionary folk hero to say.
"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed."
When William Gibson first started saying that, in the '90s, I flashed back to that day in January 1984 when I was fortunate enough to be on hand for the unveiling of the Macintosh. It was Apple's annual meeting, held at the Flint Center in Cupertino. I was there at the invitation of Regis McKenna, Jobs and Apple's longtime public relations and marketing counsel, with whom I later worked as Jobs had his breach with Apple. (Among many other things, McKenna's eponymous firm created the Apple logo, and masterminded the Mac launch with Jobs.)
Jobs was in vintage form, at his most ardently evangelizing, proudly removing the wraps at last from his "insanely great" product, as you can see in the video. I could write an entire essay about Jobs and this event, now clearly one of the seminal moments in technology and business history. It was simply electrifying, with Jobs channeling the current in both his public remarks and his private interactions.
From there, I went to the airport and flew to Des Moines for the four-week stretch run in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses of Senator Gary Hart, whom McKenna was strongly backing. Apple co-founder and Apple II inventor Steve Wozniak -- a great mensch without whom Jobs would have been lost at the beginning -- was a big supporter as well, quickly providing a helicopter when I needed to scout locations for TV ads following Hart's breakthrough in Iowa and New Hampshire, serving as a Hart delegate to the Democratic national convention, and backing Hart's think tank. John Sculley, Jobs's hand-picked Apple CEO, was also a Hart backer. But Jobs, while supportive, was not nearly the Hart enthusiast his colleagues were.
Perhaps because of his friendship with then former Governor and presidential candidate Jerry Brown, Hart's Yale Law School classmate who occupied similar political territory, and aspirations. Jobs and Brown shared a passion for Zen Buddhism. Jobs had served on the state's high tech commission under Brown and was on Brown's non-profit National Commission on Industrial Innovation, which Brown chaired and on which McKenna served as president.
And perhaps because Jobs was simply too into his own monomania.
I was stunned to learn that Jobs, a natural master if ever there was one, had not heard of the word "spin," which had famously emerged in the 1984 presidential campaign. Jobs had been so focused on Macintosh that he simply hadn't noticed.
Jobs opens the momentous 1984 Apple shareholders meeting, featuring the introduction of the Macintosh, reciting Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing."
By 1985, Jobs was relying heavily on spin. The Mac, while way cool, was not insanely great. Not yet. It was friendly tech, perky even, with its own little chirping personality, like R2D2 in Star Wars. The Mac's graphical user interface, soon replicated in Microsoft Windows, saving the world from the even more bureaucratic MS-DOS, was radical in its elegance and ease.
But it was too expensive and simply didn't do enough, in part due to decisions forced by Jobs. His early insistence on uniformity and lack of expandability backfired.
Of course, those were still horse-and-buggy days, with tech's promise still largely in the future. The otherwise fabulous Regis McKenna Inc. office in Palo Alto was still using something called telex.
Nevertheless, the clunky, cheaper, corporado IBM PC did more stuff and was cleaning the Mac's clock. People were looking for scapegoats. Jobs, wistfully opining about Apple as dolphin and IBM as shark, blamed Sculley and tried to engineer a coup, only to run afoul of a counter-coup.
Bounced from his leadership of the Mac, essentially sidelined, Jobs left Apple to launch his next big thing, NeXT Computer. And there was Pixar, which Jobs bought from George Lucas in 1986 after Lucas's divorce. After years of struggle, it revolutionized movies through computer animation and made Jobs a billionaire. Not bad for the sidelight post-Apple venture.
The main post-Apple venture, NeXT, never became the next big thing. The computer was gorgeous, but far too expensive. While Pixar percolated and NeXT languished, Apple flourished for some time before falling on hard times. Meantime, Jobs was in the wilderness.
Jobs introduces the legendary 1984 commercial -- developed by the Don Drapers of Chiat/Day and directed by Ridley Scott, played two days earlier during the Super Bowl -- counterposing Macintosh to the corporatist paradigm warned of by George Orwell.
I remember seeing him at the 1990 funeral of Bob Noyce, the co-founder of Intel and co-inventor of the integrated circuit, the foundation of Silicon Valley. Jobs had sought out Noyce, another McKenna client and friend, looking to learn from a high tech pioneer. Noyce, a preternaturally cool character intrigued by youth culture in general and the wunderkind in particular, had reciprocated. Now he was dead, of a sudden and surprising heart attack at 62.
At this point, Jobs was more former than current, well into his wilderness years, his future disproof of Fitzgerald's famous dictum that there are no second acts in American lives by no means assured. Not at all the center of attention, Jobs was saddened by Noyce's death and chastened by life's ephemeral nature.
Though it was not the next thing, NeXT had an impact and kept Jobs in the game and continuing to learn as technology evolved. When Apple stalled out in the '90s, acquiring NeXT as a means of revamping Mac system software -- and bringing back Jobs -- became a compelling option. "Special advisor" Jobs, the prodigal son with the Promethean touch, returned. He quickly became "interim" CEO, making the title permanent a few years later in 2000.
This time, Jobs was ready to be CEO. He made the moves which proved to be not only revolutionary, as the original Mac was, but highly profitable and very synergistic, which it took years for the Mac to become.
The early game changers of Mac and Pixar were followed in rapid succession by iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad ... and whatever Jobs was working on when he died earlier this month. Each proved to be disruptive technology in a mostly positive sense, altering the arcs of the computer, music, movie, and communications industries and in the process providing elegant new tools to empower people around the world.
Why the amazing outpouring for Jobs? For starters, in this age of disastrously financialized capitalism, he was a business figure clearly more interested in making products than in making money.
Jobs narrates the "Think Different" ad, something of a manifesto for his return to Apple.
In a largely dour time of encroaching chaos, Jobs is an icon of a future that works, the impresario -- for he always had outstanding people working with him, making it all possible -- of devices that delight and provide windows on a wider world.
Jobs, a rather private person even before his illness, clearly wasn't interested in being in the middle of the crowd, soaking up market share and conventional acclaim. He wanted to be out at the edge, and to turn that edge into a wave of change.
The product of a Northern Californian brew of high tech, higher ed, and getting high, Jobs added the simplicity, quirkiness, and elegance he acquired from Zen, his own passage to India, and the study of great product design.
When many experts thought that computers would get bigger, Jobs and Wozniak had the opposite insight, that they would get smaller.
Where Wozniak wanted a computer that he could play with and love, Jobs wanted computers to become truly personal, to become not simply devices that were useful or even fun, but to become an integral part of one's life.
Then he had the insight that the computer could shrink ever smaller, into what we now call a phone and into what Star Trek called a PADD (Personal Access Display Device).
Yet the perfect icon was hardly a perfect person.
As interesting and charismatic a figure as he was, Jobs had the rock star arrogance associated with someone who becomes very rich and very famous at a very young age. He didn't suffer fools gladly, which is fine, but he doesn't seem to have had much of an edit function, either.
Though a family man who chose to live in a relatively down-to-earth home, especially for a billionaire, if Jobs was a philanthropist it's escaped public attention so far.
And he pursued his revolutionary product vision by driving up Apple's profit margin through manufacturing in China, where working conditions are frequently terrible.
Originally, Jobs was committed to manufacturing Apple computers in America. He had Apple build a big manufacturing plant in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Fremont in the '80s.
But when he returned to Apple to begin its resurrection and rise to heights few had imagined it could achieve, he didn't linger long on his old Made in the USA trope.
In his 2005 Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs discusses life.
Of course, the manufacturing was shifting before Jobs returned. I look now at my trusty old Mac SE from the late '80s, as well as an original Mac I have on display, both with "Made in the USA" emblazoned on the back. But looking at the PowerBook 5300ce, briefly the most powerful laptop in the world, having saved it in 1996's Independence Day, I see that it was "assembled in Singapore." By 2002, my pretty little white iBook reads: "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in Taiwan." And now, of course, we have the ubiquitous "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China."
Jobs certainly didn't create off-shoring, having fought against it early on. But in his 2.0 days at Apple's helm, he didn't act against it. Creating his vision of the future was the key. If there was collateral damage, there was.
Mr. Jobs's neighborhood was, by choice, in a different place. He lived, as he frequently said, at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.
In 2001, a fatefully resonant year for any child of the '60s, Jobs announced that Apple would provide the digital hub for its customers' lives. In that iteration, all one's devices would be coordinated through the Mac. Now it can be an iPhone or an iPad that acts as the hub, especially with the advent of cloud computing. It might even include a new sort of television.
It is a powerful vision, and it's quickly coming into being. Perhaps it is the elegance and efficacy of it that is so appealing. Perhaps it is the sheer pleasure that using Apple devices (except when they go wrong) and even just looking at them can bring.
Perhaps it is that, with so much going wrong with the future we were promised, the slice of the future promised by Jobs not only works, but generally delights.
Steve Jobs made it his mission to develop, design, and diffuse the stuff of the future, today. Recovering from early mistakes in as dramatic a fashion as possible, he delivered. It's not perpetual world peace, but it's enough for one person.
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LONDON ? Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge plan to travel to Denmark next week to visit a United Nations center that distributes emergency supplies to East Africa.
St. James's Palace officials said Wednesday the brief trip is designed to draw attention to the worsening East Africa food shortage crisis, which is affecting an estimated 13 million people.
The Nov. 2 visit will mark the royal couple's first overseas trip since a lengthy sojourn to Canada and the United States during the summer. The British and Danish palaces said Wednesday that the couple will be accompanied by Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
The UNICEF facility coordinates the distribution of emergency food and medical supplies worldwide, including nutritional treatments for some 320,000 severely malnourished children in East Africa.
The royals are expected to be briefed about the crisis in East Africa before touring the facility and helping to pack supply boxes during their visit.
Africa has been of special interest to William, who has traveled there many times. He proposed to Kate Middleton while on vacation in Kenya in 2010.
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A team led by Henry C. Fricke, a geochemist at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, studied the tooth enamel of Camarasaurus, a long-necked vegetarian sauropod that was common in western North America during the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.
The animals, which were up to 50 feet long, would have had to eat constantly to sustain their large size, and some dinosaur researchers had suspected that they would have had to migrate to find sufficient food and water, Fricke said. But evidence for that had been lacking.
Fricke and two former students, Justin Hencecroth and Marie E. Hoerner, drilled into 32 fossilized teeth found at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Thermopolis, Wyo. They compared the ratios of oxygen isotopes within the enamel to that of soil samples near where the teeth were found.
The isotope ratios in the enamel should match that of the vegetation eaten by the dinosaurs ? which, in turn, would match that of the soil it had grown in.
The scientists found that the ratios of the isotopes oxygen-16, found in highlands, and the slightly heavier oxygen-18 from the lowlands varied from layer to layer in the tooth enamel, indicating that the source of the vegetation and water had varied at different times of the teeth's ? and the dinosaur's ? growth.
The findings, published in the journal Nature, indicated that the dinosaurs had roamed within about a 185-mile range from the site where the fossils were found, Fricke said.
Though the findings do suggest that the dinosaurs traveled somewhere, it doesn't specify for how long, or how often. That's because the teeth had taken less than five months to grow, permitting only a five-month period in the animal's life to be examined.
Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, said the findings, though intriguing, might not be enough to prove that camarasaurs underwent formal migrations.
"It doesn't necessarily mean they moved in gigantic herds like on the Discovery Channel or NatGeo showing wildebeests or caribous migrating in herds," he said.
A trek of up to 185 miles for food isn't very significant for such a large animal, he said, and the isotopic variations in the teeth could easily mean the reptiles moved in a more casual way between the highlands in warmer months and lowlands during the wet season, following the food.
But Fricke said migrations would make sense.
"Camarasaurs had to obtain their big size fast. We're assuming they were constantly eating. ? They would probably have had to move in some way to keep getting trees that still had leaves on them."
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NEW YORK?? A performance artist who said giving birth is the "highest form of art" has delivered a baby boy ? inside a New York City art gallery.
The Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn said Marni Kotak gave birth to a healthy infant, weighing 9 pounds, 2 ounces, and 21 inches long.
With Halloween just around the corner, ?The Biggest Loser? gang celebrated with sweet temptations, romantic relations and one scary weigh-in Tuesday night.
The 36-year-old artist had set up a home-birth center at the gallery, turning the space into a brightly decorated bedroom with ocean blue walls and photo-imprinted pillows.
The gallery said in a statement that "Baby X" was born at 10:17 a.m. Tuesday. It didn't say how many people witnessed the birth or give any other detail.
The gallery said a video of the birth will be added to its upcoming exhibition.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa ? Though Iowa has made a splash this season with a no-huddle look, the Hawkeyes are at their core a team that loves to grind it out on offense.
They went back to the ground against Indiana in a 45-24 win last week, piling up 456 yards with a nice balance ? 253 through the air and 203 on the ground.
The Hawkeyes (5-2, 2-1 Big Ten) will likely try to establish the running game again when they face struggling Minnesota (1-6, 0-3) on Saturday. Only the Hoosiers are allowing more yards on the ground among Big Ten teams than the Golden Gophers, who've given up just under 200 a game.
"We believe you have to try to be balanced," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. "It's not so much about the numbers you have, but being able to do what you want."
Overshadowed by the performance by wide receiver Marvin McNutt, who caught touchdown passes of 80, 29 and 24 yards to set the school record for career TD receptions, was another encouraging outing from sophomore running back Marcus Coker.
Coker, who looked tentative earlier this season while dealing with a shoulder injury, had perhaps his best game of the year against the Hoosiers. He got the ball on Iowa's first five snaps, and wound up with 139 yards on 23 carries, his second straight game with at least 120 yards and two TDs.
Coker has 717 yards rushing and now ranks fifth in the Big Ten with 102.4 yards per game. He's been better in league play, averaging 5.3 yards a carry the past three weeks.
"I was thinking too much and second-guessing holes, and you can't do that as a running back," Coker said. "Just a couple weeks ago when I talked to coach Ferentz, he said I just I had go out there and stop thinking so much, to stop overanalyzing everything and just go out there and play football and have fun."
Iowa also got some big runs from an unlikely source ? quarterback James Vandenberg.
Vandenberg, who's about as close to the true definition of a pocket passer as can be, kept the game's first drive going with a 24-yard run on third down. He then ran for six yards on 3rd-down-and-4, setting up Coker's first touchdown.
Vandenberg will likely never be considered a dual-threat quarterback, and his league-leading 16 touchdowns against just four interceptions suggests he won't have to be. But the improvisational plays show Vandenberg's increased comfort level with the playbook.
"I wouldn't considered myself a running quarterback by any stretch. But it's a guy the defense doesn't really account for," Vandenberg said. "If I can pick up a first down or two with my feet, that just provides a different dimension."
Though the Hawkeyes have been better running the football recent weeks, they're certainly not as stout as they've been in years past.
Iowa still ranks just 10th in the league in rushing offense as it's relied heavily on Vandenberg, McNutt and fellow receivers Keenan Davis and Kevonte Martin-Manley, and Northwestern, Indiana and Minnesota combine to anchor the bottom of the Big Ten in run defense.
Still, the weather's about to turn cold in the Midwest, and it's encouraging for Iowa to start moving the ball on the ground with the likes of Michigan State, Michigan and Nebraska around the corner.
"Our offensive line has done a really good job of controlling the tempo up front these last two weeks, and we've gotten Coker going early," Vandenberg said. "He's a fullback to handle once he gets that head of steam going."
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B's four-night stand at Roseland Ballroom arrives on DVD by Thanksgiving.
By Jocelyn Vena
Beyoncé (file)
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Back in August, Beyoncé played four hotly hyped, sold-out shows at New York's Roseland Ballroom, the same venue where Radiohead played a two-night stand last month. If you weren't one of the lucky few who snagged a ticket to Beyoncé's celebration of her 4 album, don't worry. The singer will release a new concert DVD, "Live at Roseland," on November 21.
The DVD, which captures the "4 Intimate Nights with Beyoncé" event, will be sold exclusively at Walmart and includes 26 songs from her cabaret show and concert, which took place shortly before she officially announced her pregnancy at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. The DVD not only includes a montage of B's finest tunes, both with Destiny's Child and as a solo star, but also features the singer candidly revealing the stories behind the greatest moments in her career.
In addition to a retrospective of hits, Beyoncé also brought things up to date during those string of Roseland concerts, playing her 2011 album, 4, in its entirety.
Jay-Z's favorite lady, who just dropped her video for "Party," will also release, on November 29, a deluxe DVD package, "Live at Roseland: The Elements of 4." The pack will include plenty of extras that Beyoncé fans should go crazy over, including a two-disc DVD featuring the concert, bonus footage, previously unreleased videos, a booklet and a video anthology.
November 21 is shaping up to be a big day for pop fans. Lady Gaga releases her very own concert DVD special that day, in addition to the Born This Way the Remix album. Even better, she'll bundle those two new items with her original Born This Way album for the ultimate Gaga gift, called Born This Way: The Collection.
Which DVD special are you most excited for? Tell us in the comments!
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Horror-movie icon ushered in the modern era of slasher films — but is he the best cinematic killer of all time?
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Michael Myers in "Halloween"
Photo: Dimension Films
We're just about halfway through MTV's Killer Halloween, and the competition is just heating up in the battle to find out which movie murderer tops them all.
So far, we've profiled Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Chucky and Ghostface, but now we look at the man who ushered in the modern era of slashers.
Which horror-movie baddie has the best personality? Make your pick in our MTV Movies Blog poll!
Michael Myers
Occupation: Homicidal boy, homicidal adult
Weapons: Knife, inability to ever freaking die
Archenemy: His family, his psychiatrist, anyone who gets in the way of him killing his family and his psychiatrist
Profile: Michael Myers was a bit of a prodigy in the ways of serial killing, changing the game even as a young boy. Pre-teen Michael may have been the first to don a mask — a creepy clown one for his first murder — and go after the babysitter, his sister Judith. He spent the remainder of his youth in an institution for the mentally disturbed under the close observation of Dr. Sam Loomis. After Michael escaped, stealing a mask, jumpsuit and knife from a hardware store, movie serials have never been the same.
The target of most of Michael's deadly attention has been his surviving sister, Laurie, the lead played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the first two films and "Halloween: H20" and Scout Taylor-Compton in the Rob Zombie remakes. The early films simply focused on Michael's obsession with finding his long-lost baby sister, but later in the series, the true origin of Michael as an embodiment of pure evil added a supernatural element to the villain.
There has never been too much to Michael Myers' tactics. He stalks. He walks. He kills. His style of murder will be remembered for a number of reasons. His mask, an old William Shatner "Star Trek" mask painted white, has become a horror icon. His slow gait and silent disposition directly inspired dozens of imitators — Jason Voorhees, most famously. Modern slasher films owe a debt to Michael Myers and his creator John Carpenter, whose work has affected the genre for generations.
Where do you think Michael Myers falls in the scope of horror-movie psychopaths? Let us know in the comments!
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TORONTO (Reuters) ? Toronto's main stock index ended moderately lower on Tuesday, giving up earlier gains that took it to a one-month high, as pessimism set in over an upcoming European summit.
World stocks stumbled after the cancellation of a meeting of European finance ministers raised doubts that an upcoming summit will result in a clear plan to rein in Europe's debt crisis.
"The decline we're seeing in the markets broadly may reflect some disappointment yet again that Europe is not going to be a quick fix," said Elvis Picardo, strategist and vice president of research at Global Securities in Vancouver.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index ended down 52.53 points, or 0.43 percent, at 12,109.75.
The index at one point reached 12,230.82, its strongest level since September 20.
"We've had a pretty good rally anticipating a positive outcome (from the European meetings), which I don't think will be as neat and clean as politicians are wont to do," Paul Hand, managing director at RBC Capital Markets, said early in the session.
After being up for most of the day, 8 of the TSX index's 10 main sectors finished lower, with energy and financials leading the charge.
Canadian financial shares have frequently moved in sympathy with their European peers, which have see-sawed on developments in the European debt crisis. Toronto-Dominion Bank was the market's biggest laggard, falling 1.7 percent to C$73.68.
Gold miners were among Toronto's most heavily weighted gainers. Bullion prices roared to one of the biggest one-day rallies in years, as the euro zone jitters and gloomy U.S. consumer data rekindled a dormant safe-haven bid and triggered a flurry of technical buying.
Barrick Gold Corp closed up 3.4 percent at C$48.05. Goldcorp Inc gains 4.1 percent to C$48.34.
Miner Alacer Gold Corp's shares rose 5.5 percent to C$11.56 a day after the company's board approved expansion of its South Kalgoorlie gold operations in Australia.
Meanwhile, Potash Corp shares fell 2.5 percent to C$49.21 on news its competitor, Russian miner Uralkali, announced plans to boost capacity 80 percent by 2021.
On the Canadian earnings front, Canadian Pacific Railway slipped 0.5 percent to C$59.52 after the country's No. 2 railway reported a lower third-quarter profit as fuel costs rose 43 percent.
In other news, the Bank of Canada held its key interest rate steady, dropping any mention of the need to raise rates as it slashed its growth and inflation projections.
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