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Percent  My eyes have been opened through the power of a squinty
little thumbnail graphic.  At the top of this morning's Google
News page is a section of stories about next week's New
Hampshire presidential primary. The picture next to the links to
the news stories, however, looked like a baseball player talking
to a hockey player.  I assumed that the graphic was a mixup not
caught by editors, but when I clicked on the link to make sure,
I saw that it was, in fact, a political photograph. Looking
eerily like Michael Dukakis riding around in a tank with a big
helmet on, John Kerry was wearing a hockey helmet, standing next
to a player from the Boston Bruins, wearing a baseball cap.
What message am I supposed to get from this picture? How is it
supposed to help my vote? John Kerry can talk to hockey players
- stop the presses!  Going back to the Google news page, it
occurred to me