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...shoulders and declaring that it wasn't going to get any better from here. He made life easy for the half-cocked Florida Republicans, patting them on the back and easing them back into their seats. He also came to the very reasonable conclusion that Florida's election apparatus would not bear up to any further scrutiny...
...That our electoral apparatus, it turns out, was definitely Y2K-proof...
...madness candidate, and that campaign continues. It's not a bad public relations angle for this post-election muddle: Name a president-elect quickly for the good of the nation, keep the lawyers out of it, and above all don't look any closer at a Florida election apparatus that is not flattered by inspection...
...Harris, flanked by several members of Florida's electoral apparatus, was to tell the roomful of reporters what they hadn't come to hear: They'd be done maybe Tuesday, maybe not, and anyway they should come back Friday, when they'll have the absentee ballots and there'll be only one number that matters. The press' numbers are meaningless, and quite likely to be wrong...
...devoted to my apartment building in Chelsea. Which, by the way, is the gayest place in the entire world. I had no idea democracy was so social, until all the guys standing around me started shouting at the guy in the booth, who seemed to have broken the voting apparatus. "You've been working out too much!" they yelled. That was generous, considering it seemed the equipment was manufactured by Philco-Bendix. While we were waiting, the man in front of me, stylist Wayne Lukas, turned to me and said, "You're cute." So we started talking, you know. Wayne...