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Imagine the publicity you'd get as the first woman ever to dunk in a professional game. When the commercials insist that WNBA players have "got game," a picture of your thunderous dunk over some poor member of the Miami Sol would be there to back it up. A lot of fans would think that the chance of seeing you dunk was worth the price of admission. I would...
...Cheney was leaving the hospital last week, reporters inquired if he had plans to ask Bush to replace him as his running mate. He laughed and said, "No, not yet." He and his doctors insist that the stress of his latest campaign, to say nothing of the chaos that followed Election Day, did not have much to do with his problems last week. Nothing he went through as a candidate for Vice President, Cheney said, compared to the stress he faced as Defense Secretary during the Persian Gulf...
Among the issues the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to consider is whether the Florida court violated federal law by changing the state's election laws after the voting. Democrats insist that resolving the conflicting provisions did not amount to rewriting the law. Somewhat ironically, they also find themselves on the side of states' rights in arguing against the Republicans that state rather than federal courts should be the final arbiter of state election laws. Bush brought the case to the Supreme Court, and it might be considered moot if he's the top vote getter in the later...
COOL LAPS INVENTOR: RAY NOVOTNY For the literal-minded few who insist on actually propping their laptop computers on their laps, the consequence can be an extreme case of warm thighs. The Laptop Soft-Seat, made of lightweight aluminum, absorbs the excess heat and keeps computers and knees cool. So does a table, but then that was invented a while...
...Gore wouldn't lob any Jim Baker-style grenades at the partisanship of the Court - the media would kill him for it. He'll just soberly, and correctly, insist that the Court ruled on his protest but not his contest (which lives on in the Florida courts at least through Saturday). His noble, selfless quest to "count all the votes" must continue for the good of democracy...