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...money and staff. All pieces are temporarily acquired through donations from foundations and individuals, the most prominent of which include Barbara Lee, The Poss-Kapor Foundation, Nancy Tieken, the LEF Foundation and the Reily Foundation. Intoxicated with his lofty ideals, Tucker shines with enthusiasm about the five pieces that await installation. Excitement, however, takes a continued backseat to local politics, as the miscommunication problem continues. Essaibi claims that the Columbia-Savin Hill Community only agreed to be part of the advisory committee: "We absolutely have not agreed to allow the installation of new pieces," she proclaims. Public art, while...
Outside, about 40 participants and onlookers lit candles and settled in to await an announcement of what action administrators and police would take...
...poked or prodded or rendered somehow concave. Democratic observers are pushing vote counters to include those indented ballots (most of which appear to favor the Gore-Lieberman ticket) in the state's ultimate tally. At least 300 dimpled ballots have been set aside in Palm Beach County, where they await orders from Florida's Supreme Court. On Tuesday night, the court appeared to have not addressed the issue, though they did cite a ruling from the Illinois Supreme Court, which allowed certain dimpled chads to be counted...
...reach a consensus. In Miami-Dade County, where election workers are counting by far the largest number of ballots, the dimpled (or pregnant) chads are already being counted as votes. In Palm Beach and Broward counties, election workers are setting aside the dimpled ballots into "questionable" piles, where they await further deliberations. And the final arbiter will be the courts: Wednesday, Palm Beach Democrats will go to court to try to force election officials to accept broader interpretations of "intent to vote" with regard to the dimpled chads...
...whole mess has forced the candidates to behave slightly out of character. Gore, who turns hello into a treatise and who squeezed in one last town meeting at his voting place in Carthage, gave a very brief press conference cautioning his supporters that they would have to await the electoral vote despite his apparent win of the popular vote. He urged patience. He jogged and played his usual touch football with Tipper and the kids to the predictable gibe that he was acting Kennedyesque. But that's as presidential...