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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...finality does not arrive to this never-final affair, and they haven't changed their schedule yet. But they may have a few days to play with: State Senate leader John McKay insisted this week that his experts had told him the 16th, not the 12th, was the true brick wall for the naming of Florida's electors. But today Republican state senator Daniel Webster pegged Wednesday again: If there is no finality, he said, we will bring finality on the 13th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crazy-Paved Road Ahead | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...sound and fury: the Faulkner plaque on the Lars Anderson bridge. The plaque is small, bronze, weathered and nearly impossible to pick out against the brick on the bridge's northwest side; it's inscribed "to Quentin Compson, drowned in a field of honeysuckle." Cognoscenti will recognize the bridge as the supposed location of one of the novel's great tragedies...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Sense of Place | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...name their own set of electors to send to the Electoral College and count on House Republican strongman Tom DeLay to make sure they get seated; when an angry mob showed up to pound on the doors of the offices where Miami-Dade canvassers were meeting; when a brick flew through a Democratic Party office window in Broward County with a note warning, "We will not tolerate any illegal government." Prospects that were unimaginable one day become probable the next: it will go to the House, no, to the Senate; Gore will cast the tie-break vote; Could Strom Thurmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Bush's Contested Lead | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...else," comments student Roberto Landivar. Christine Aller, a passing art major, comments that "Huru" is her favorite piece, though she doesn't necessarily like all the works that have been installed. Nevertheless, Aller holds that the artwork "makes the campus more attractive by adding to the gross stone and brick." The ever-quixotic Tucker insists that exposure and familiarity are essential to art appreciation, even if it means challenging people and stepping on some toes: "All novel art has always been challenging," he says. "We're the only public university in the Athens of America-if we can't shoulder...

Author: By Selin Tuysuzoglu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Arts on the Point of...? | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...fact, melted into Harvard, but stands as its own "mysterious" structure. In the poet's eyes, the Radcliffe Institute occupies a critical stance towards Harvard, serving as critique of modern elite universities and a "thorn in the flesh of institutional self-congratulation." The reading itself was another brick in the pathway of Radcliffe's future endeavors, and proves the dynamic nature of the Lecture Series...

Author: By Selin Tuysuzoglu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Gets Rich: Poet, Activist, Feminist Adrienne Rich Reads in the Radcliffe Institute Inaugural Lecture Series | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

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