Because cats can see in the dark, they need almost no lights, but that particular night the glow of the full moon floods the town, enabling the young man to see every detail from his perch in the bell tower.

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"Arsenio was getting ratings almost immediately because there was no one like him on late night, " recalled Ancier.

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Between convention and the general election, crucial electioneering time, Bush was the butt of jokes on late night TV comedies on no less than 261 occasions, almost twice as many times as rival Kerry, according to figures from the Center for Media and Public Affairs.

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That is, here is a glaring waste of electric power, fully lighting a business through all its nighttime inactivity, every single night, for no purpose at all except to advertise its presence to almost empty midnight streets.

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