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...Could this financial fissure lead to rifts in the guilds? The SAG commercials strike suggests otherwise: Stars like Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey and Nicolas Cage put big bucks in the union's treasure chest and the spotlight of glamour on the little people. That doesn't mean the rank and file is itching for more picket-line time. "The actors just went through the longest strike in their history," says Ira Shepherd, who was lead negotiator for the advertisers. "That will have a moderating effect on their desire to do it again next year...
...MINORITY WINS It's not likely that a candidate will win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote. But it happened in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland. If it happens this year, it's more likely Bush would win the popular vote but lose the electoral, because he will capture more states in which he will win by big margins. Indeed, Gore could win with just 17 states and D.C. Unquestionably, the electoral vote winner would be President, but he'd lack a mandate and face a crisis of legitimacy...
...ancient and quirky electoral system has been known to award the reins of power to the candidate with fewer popular votes. When Grover S. Cleveland beat out Benjamin Harrison in 1888 by a scant 0.7 percent of votes cast, his supporters did not engage in bacchanalian post-election festivities because Cleveland did not become president. The Electoral College ended up choosing Harrison (Cleveland did, however, win in a subsequent election...
...Beatles Anthology, a coffee table-size volume of text and photos, is the big one. The saga of the group is told primarily in the alternating voices of McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr. Their magical mystery tour is related in straight-ahead chronological order: Lennon growing up on Penny Lane (yes, that's really where he lived for a time); John and Paul meeting as teens and later hooking up with Harrison and then Starr; the early days of the band in Hamburg, Germany; and the making of each one of their albums. There are some interesting tidbits and stories...
There's an endearing British quality to the Beatles' voices in this volume, and that sometimes gives the anecdotes an Austin Powers-ish twist. Harrison remembers this story about the band's salad days in Germany: "Our friend Bernie came out from Liverpool to visit us. We were in a club, and Bernie walked in and said, 'I've just had a wank off this great-looking bird in the lav.' We all said, 'That's not a bird, Bernie...