Friday, September 10, 2004

POLITICS -- All We Have to Fear is the Next 53 Days

Forgeries or did the Government Buy some Really Expensive Typewriters -- Naw, that'd Never Happen. Forensic experts question whether the memos on President Bush’s Air National Guard service are authentic. The documents use proportional spacing -- in other words the letter “I” does not take up as much space as the letter “M.” That was rare for typewriters of the 1970s, leading some people to believe the documents are forgeries. IBM did introduce a proportional typewriter in 1941 and the Linotype Company purchased rights to the font that same year. There appears to have been an effort in the 1940s to create typewriters that produced typed pages that looked like printed ones. However, typewriting experts say the print doesn’t look like the typeface on other Air National Guard documents from the same base at the same time. (WashPost)

Campaigning Abroad. When every vote counts, politicians will go to the ends of the earth to find them. There are 10 million Americans living abroad. And with 250,000 of them in Israel, it’s sometimes called the “51st state.” (Reuters)

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