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CHIBA, Japan - Sony Corp. showed off its PSX, the beefed up PlayStation 2 video-game machine that also works as a DVD recorder, analog TV, digital photo album and music player and goes on sale in Japan late this year for just over $700. The offering from the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant underlines the intensifying competition in the industry to sell the idea of home digital entertainment that introduces computer functions from the office into the living room. The PSX, slated for sale next year in the U.S. and European markets, took center stage Tuesday at the Sony booth...

Sharpton Blasts ‘Favorite Son’ Plan Says Democrats Are Afraid of Him BY BENJAMIN SMITH - The Rev. Al Sharpton, moving ever closer to a run for president, yesterday blasted a leading Democrat’s plan to steer black voters away from him in 2004. Al Gore’s former campaign manager, Donna Brazile, says she may push popular black officials to run for president in their home states as “favorite sons.” That strategy, she says, would increase black voters’ impact, while pulling the rug out from under Mr. Sharpton in key southern states. Ms. Brazile’s plan — and Mr. Sharpton’s response — mark the...

DeKalb voters file suit to throw out results of McKinney-Majette primary By BILL RANKIN Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Five DeKalb County voters today filed a federal lawsuit seeking to throw out the results in the Aug. 20 Democratic primary that handed Denise Majette a victory over incumbent Cynthia McKinney in the 4th Congressional District. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, says "malicious crossover" voting by Republicans in the primary violated the Voting Rights Act. The suit was filed against Secretary of State Cathy Cox, the DeKalb and Gwinnett county elections supervisors, Majette, the DeKalb Republican Party and...

Mark Guethle, the new chairman of the Kane County Democratic Party, said he voted for a Republican in the 2000 primary election because his union told him to. Guethle's Kane County voting history indicates he took a Republican ballot in the 2000 primary election. Now the union's political organizer, Guethle said Painters Union District Council No. 30 strongly supported Sunny Abello, who was challenging State Sen. Chris Lauzen, R-Aurora, in the primary."It wasn't the first time," Guethle said of voting in a Republican primary on the directive of his union."When the union director sends you a letter, you read it...

<p>PORTLAND, Maine Longtime Republican financier Robert Monks said Monday that he is supporting Democratic Senate candidate Chellie Pingree in her race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins.</p> <p>Monks said he supports Pingree because he thinks the best chance for passing corporate reform laws is to have Democrats control Congress. Monks has run unsuccessfully for the Senate three times, most recently in 1996 when he lost in the Republican primary to Collins and another candidate.</p>