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...news: They also awarded it to the loser. Dan Rather assured viewers they could take CBS's election-night projections "to the bank"; then the networks had to make two costly withdrawals. It was, in the words of CBS and CNN election consultant Warren Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch...
...soon as they realized the problem, all hell broke loose. Party officials were frantically calling Democratic Party state headquarters and Gore's command center in Tallahassee. In the meantime, the Democrats frantically printed flyers to warn voters about the problem and tried to get party activists to the polling places to sound the alarm. But they had already missed the important prework hours...
...wild outing titled "Apartheid Slave Women's Justice." Shot on videotape, the feature is a race-relations allegory about a kangaroo court of black South African women who capture and try their former "master," played by Mikels. The women deliver wildly melodramatic speeches as they kick the hell out of Ted, frequently stepping on him in high heels; the kicks are accompanied by a rather amusing videogame-like "doink! doink!" sound. The proceedings are sporadically interrupted by exterior shots of African dancers, a rainswept street, and unexplained scenes of people eating, and then it's back to Ted's beating...
...garage, that magnificent union of house's delicious divas and pristine hi-hats with jungle's breakbeats and primal bass. It's sexy, funky and smooth as hell. It's a similar but tastier alternative to the hip-hop fluff dominating American club charts. It's the most enticing dance genre in years...
...Upset at the way midterms went? Want to just get away for a while? Then head to the Loeb Ex for Phyllis Nagy's mystery play-with-a-brain Disappeared. A young woman disappears from Hell's Kitchen in New York and it only gets weirder from there...