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Texas Gov. George W. Bush's injunction to prevent the hand count in Palm Beach County, Fla. is undemocratic and unwise. By legally pursuing an end to the hand counting, Bush endorses the unfair moral pressure on Vice President Al Gore '69 to concede the election...
...pair are taking classes because Venus opened a piece of junk mail advertising a fashion school in Tampa, Fla., a few years ago. Tampa was too far away, so she signed up herself and her unknowing sister for the program in Fort Lauderdale. Venus insists that within a few weeks she will land a real part-time job in fashion. And within three years, the sisters plan on designing their own lines, with Venus making pret-a-porter and Serena doing evening wear--and neither doing sportswear. "Right now we're sort of famous, and while you have a name...
...awake and issued strict marching orders. And oh, the places Seuss is going! Even as we speak, the Cat in the Hat is ushering children through an elaborate ride at Seuss Landing, the 110-acre theme park that opened last year at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. The great green spoilsport comes to life in Ron Howard's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" a big-screen adaptation costing well north of $120 million and opening Nov. 17. And on Nov. 30, Seuss's beloved elephant, Horton, will hatch his egg on a Broadway stage in "Seussical...
...Bush plan in action, consider the story of Spencer Bibbs Elementary in Pensacola, Fla. Meant to be a magnet school for science and technology, Spencer Bibbs instead posted abysmal test scores that landed it on the state's worst-performing list two years in a row. During the 1998-99 school year, just 26% of its students scored at the minimum-competency level of the state's reading exam...
ARRESTED. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 38, baseball star, most recently of the New York Yankees; on charges of violating probation and using drugs while serving his sentence for a drug charge; in Tampa, Fla. Suspended from professional baseball, with a long history of arrests and drug problems, Strawberry was serving a sentence of two years of house arrest. He was charged in September with driving under the influence...