If Karl Rove is right, a last-minute story in the 2000 election -- that George W. Bush had been arrested for drunk driving as a young man -- kept a few million likely Republican voters, mostly white evangelicals, away from the polls.

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Unlike most of the hotels in the area, the Paramount, which is priced under the nearby W and the Marquis, has a welcoming two-story "living room" lobby where "you can kick up your feet, chill out and regroup, " said Mr. Rosen.

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For the most part, however, the additional homeland attacks we all imagined after September 2001 - and which President George W. Bush once described as his greatest nightmare - are a story of the dog that did not bark.

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