Article: `Survivor,' `Big Brother' tell us order, stability, dullness matter.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Jordan loses. Gervase is out. Bush wins.

On Wednesday night, George W. Bush was undoubtedly watching Republican convention delegates make him their nominee for president.

But if he'd done a little channel flipping, he would also have found good news in CBS' hit reality series "Survivor"and "Big Brother."

On "Survivor," the most-watched series in America, the alliance of contestants held firm once again and voted Gervase off the island.

On "Big Brother," television viewers voted to make Jordan _ also known as The Stripper _ the second contestant banished from that series' house.

And that was good news for George W. Bush.

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