Word: hinting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...same mechanisms we use to make ourselves seem smarter than we are. By midafternoon on Election Day, journalists receive exit-poll data, diced into a zillion demographic categories on whom people voted for and why. Networks use those figures to call states seconds after the polls close (and hint not so subtly at outcomes earlier in the day); print journalists use it to plan election coverage; we all use it to lord our insiderdom over less-well-connected pals. The monopolistic source of the data is the Voter News Service, an exit-polling and vote-counting consortium of the major...
...hint? The ballot-crunchers, seeming somehow closer in time to 1786 than 2000, are going to be quite a while. And that excruciating variety of potential delays, ready to be goosed into being by the two sides, will afford those reborn campaigns plenty of time to work the media hordes and talk to their lawyers about Palm Beach (which will undergo its own partial recounts over the weekend; check in Monday...
...investigate Davis' allegations, the sorority's national office sent a team that included Atlanta civil rights lawyer Mason Barge. He says the team found no hint of racism: "There was no evidence other than one girl's statement." The local sorority chapter agreed last month to offer racial sensitivity training to its members in exchange for not being disciplined by the university. The sorority still has no black members and is not required to accept any. Out of about 1,000 applicants this year, Barge says, the freshman was the only black. Because the sorority uses campus facilities...
...steel-girder sets are drably unmemorable. Instead of the film's catchy '70s hits (Hot Chocolate's You Sexy Thing), we have a new score by David Yazbek, whose lyrics ("cojones" rhymed with "what testosterone is") are marginally better than his generic, '70s-pop-with-a-hint-of-Sondheim music. Even the supposed showstoppers--a black man (Andre DeShields) sings of his endowments; a crusty pianist (Kathleen Freeman) celebrates her show-biz past--seem earthbound and underchoreographed...
...last leaves fall in Harvard Yard and the hint of a winter's chill creeps into Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard women's hockey team can't wait to start a new season. And that's just what 2000-01 will be at Bright--brand...