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Political tidbits: Coleman’s challenge, Frank’s coming out, Rubin’s background
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has all the details on Al Franken’s 225-vote victory (for now) and Norm Coleman’s legal challenge in the U.S. Senate recount in Minnesota:
The lawsuit that Coleman’s attorneys said they would file today is called an election contest. It will prevent Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, under state law, from officially certifying Franken’s election until the legal process has run its course.
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Bloomberg on CNN
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg takes to the airwaves on CNN to defend Israel—and pushes back against the anchor’s push back.
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The other Merkin speaks out on Madoff
Except for an entirely missable reference in the first sentence, it’s possible to read Daphne Merkin’s take on the Madoff affair without realizing that it was her brother, J. Ezra, who was the principal conduit between moneyed Orthodox Manhattanites and the giant Ponzi scheme Madoff was running out of his Midtown digs. Which on some level is understandable, given that her whole point is that women are virtually absent from the world of high finance, relegated to elegant set pieces that enhance the status of the men to whom they’re attached and lubricate the social machinery needed for their advancement.
