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THE MONEY QUOTES: "I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems. And I think that that's a real problem growing out of this election. The media now, all of the media — not just Fox News, that was perceived as highly partisan...

NEW YORK -- A construction worker has filed a lawsuit claiming that when he went to a hospital after being hit on the forehead by a falling wooden beam, emergency room staffers forcibly gave him a rectal examination.Brian Persaud, 38, said in court papers that after he denied a request by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital emergency room employees to examine his rectum, he was "assaulted, battered and falsely imprisoned."His lawyer, Gerrard M. Marrone, said Tuesday that his client was injured while working at a construction site in midtown Manhattan on May 20, 2003, and at the hospital later he got eight stitches...

It has been 20 years since he died -- how can that be! -- and I miss him still. He left our lives too soon. Among his four children, he missed a medical school graduation, two marriages and the birth of his only grandchild. He would have adored her, with her mop of sandy curls and bright brown eyes. He would have set aside the standards of discipline with which he reared his children -- no idle hands, no impudence, no acting out in public (and very little in private) -- to spoil her hopelessly. My father's death in March...