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...Sauls was raised in Florida's Panhandle; his father was a court clerk, his mother a tax collector. In high school, he was "most likely to succeed," "friendliest" and "most intellectual." After graduating from FSU and then the University of Florida's law school, he worked as a prosecutor and a federal bankruptcy judge before being appointed to the circuit court in 1989 by Republican governor Bob Martinez. Two events shaped Sauls' life: the 1993 death of his 16-year-old daughter in a car accident, and a local scandal in 1998, when the state supreme court removed...
Carol Roberts, 64, is an avid collector of stuffed and ceramic penguins and donkeys. Subtlety has never been her style in decor--or in politics. Last week the former Democratic mayor of West Palm Beach used her spitfire stratagems to boost Al Gore. Wearing a tiny butterfly pin to mock the infamous ballot, she faced the cameras and vowed to count every last vote. Why wait for court approval? Why should the battle for the Constitution wait for a judge? "What happens? Do we go to jail?" she asked the lawyer for the board of canvassers. "Because I'm ready...
Scratch a collector, and you find a pack rat who likes to play librarian. As a teenager Elton bought rock records extravagantly, then organized them with Prussian efficiency, filing them by record label and catalog number. With early stardom he loaded up on the usual blunder acquisitions of new-money collectors. (What was it exactly that baby boomers saw in Art Nouveau posters and Tiffany lamps?) Most of that he sold off some years ago in the mental and physical housecleaning that accompanied his decision to stop drinking. Then he went to lunch in France, somebody showed him some prints...
...Scratch a collector, and you find a pack rat who likes to play librarian. As a teenager Elton bought rock records extravagantly, then organized them with Prussian efficiency, filing them by record label and catalog number. With early stardom he loaded up on the usual blunder acquisitions of new-money collectors. (What was it exactly that baby boomers saw in Art Nouveau posters and Tiffany lamps?) Most of that he sold off some years ago in the mental and physical housecleaning that accompanied his decision to stop drinking. Then he went to lunch in France, somebody showed him some prints...
...resurrected the same liberal ghosts that his father used so successfully to haunt Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president represented "the old ways of tax and spend," and sketched a Gore world where a tax collector stooped under every stairway and the gargantuan federal government would awaken and slouch toward your hometown. "For him big government has never really been dead," said Bush. "It has simply been biding its time, waiting for its next chance.... If Gore gets elected, the era of big government being over...