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...Bush camp was trying not to panic, though top fund raisers were tapped to call up big donors and hold their hands. "Everyone thought we were so good that we were gonna walk away with this thing," sighs a top adviser to the Texas Governor. "Even we started believing it." Last week there was no shortage of Republican operatives who said they had seen trouble coming for weeks, even months, but none of the cocky co-pilots in Austin would listen. Some image advisers inside the campaign and back in Washington at Republican headquarters had said for weeks the Bush...
...athlete, at least a smart one, does not say publicly, "I'm gonna kill him." Such a statement, circled in red Magic Marker and tacked to a locker-room bulletin board, can be as inspirational as a Gipper speech. So this year's Olympians will murmur only the mildest bromides. But some of them, in this Grudge Report, will quietly nurse their enmity to find a focus for their few moments in the quadrennial sun. The old Olympic rule applies: Get mad; get even...
...woman be watching television?) We see Al Gore at the notorious Buddhist temple fund-raiser, dissembling at a podium, claiming to have created the Internet. The female narrator sneers, "There's Al Gore reinventing himself on television again. Like I'm not going to notice. Who's he gonna be today? The Al Gore who raises campaign money at a Buddhist temple? Or the one who now promises campaign finance reform? Really...
...have won. (I shudder at the thought of that transplant, but she might have.) But Colleen was just cruising through this thing, smiling and tossing her head and dispensing slow-dawning but solid wisdom on the tiny island's Big Picture. On the trivia challenge: "I thought, 'This is gonna be so cool, just like a game show.' Then I was like, 'Wait a minute, we're ON a game show...
...security guard named Jim, who has long hair that probably reminded Falwell of something a little uncomfortable, stepped in front of him. In no uncertain terms, Jim says "No." "Ok, then," says Falwell, and he leaves. The guard's partner, Greg, comes walking up. "Boy, you ain't gonna be in Jerry's prayers tonight, Jim." To which Jim replies, "Not the first time...