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...part of a $30 million upgrade undertaken after Florida's 2000 presidential recount debacle. Because of the voting fiasco, it took all of last week for state officials to confirm that Tampa attorney Bill McBride had narrowly, and stunningly, upset former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in the Democratic contest to face Governor Jeb Bush. The two counties have until this week to revise their results, but a different outcome is unlikely...
...South has been averted, and a Miss America pageant once divided is now strong. After weeks in which two women claimed to be Miss North Carolina, MISTY CLYMER, right, has been named the sole bearer of the title. Clymer had been battling REBEKAH REVELS, who won the state contest but resigned--she says under pressure--when her ex-boyfriend alleged he had topless pictures of her. After the sash passed to first runner-up Clymer, Revels sued to get the title back. Before a decision was made, both women went to Atlantic City, N.J., for prepageant activities, which apparently included...
...this ambitious but self-conscious series becomes more than the sum of its affectations--flat line readings, characters with names like Mr. Smooth, precious tilted-camera shots to remind you how weird it all is. The producers (including writer-producer Ben Affleck) seem to want to use the contest as bait to draw viewers to a genuinely different kind of series. If they have a vision--not just a marketing gimmick built out of spare Twin Peaks parts--Push could even be worth watching for nothing. --By James Poniewozik
...down the government. "This is the end of the Haider era," says Peter Sichrovsky, the outgoing general secretary of the party, who resigned last week in protest over Haider's "putsch." Sichrovsky remorsefully adds, "We failed to get the party out of the extremist corner." Though the party will contest the elections without Haider, support last week fell to 12%, down from a high of 27% almost three years ago. What happened? The party may have been a victim of its own success. Six months after it sprang to prominence in 1999, Haider relinquished the leadership because of the uproar...
Freshman goalkeeper Katie Shields has settled in nicely already, with a 1.06 goals against average. After making 12 saves in the Penn State game, which was the second contest for the Crimson in the Harvard Invitational last weekend, Shields was named to the All-Tournament team...