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...Florida continues to count and recount and even hand-recount its presidential ballots, Harvard students from the Sunshine State have become instant pundits, ballot analysts, and defenders of their state's dignity...
...fiscal hurdles. Napster, which has been in a hiring freeze while it fought the court action, now is one of the few places in Silicon Valley with a HELP WANTED sign on its door. Fanning has big plans for a next-generation service with enhanced file-sharing and instant-messaging capability...
With a collection this big, you get to compare iconic shots like George Hoyningen-Huene's Seated Divers from around 1930--a man and woman seated at the end of a diving board, backs turned to us and peering out at a painted-backdrop sea--with instant classics like one of Rineke Dijkstra's hypnotic pictures of single figures standing upright against the horizon at real beaches around northern Europe. The Hoyningen-Huene is one of the psychic landmarks of fashion photography, a picture in which the clothes matter less than the canny mood, both aerodynamic and dreamy. Dijkstra...
...wait that jars our sensibilities in this instant-information nation. But when Americans finally find out whom they elected president, they will face a number of questions. If the recount holds up for George W. Bush, the founding fathers and the people will disagree for the first time in more than a century. What then? A crisis of methodology - can a ballot really be so unreadable as to induce a wealthy Jewish senior to vote for Pat Buchanan? Could a rash news media's conjured-up Florida roller coaster actually have affected the outcome of an election that...
...Florida, there's little left to do but interview party mouthpieces and spin out scenarios, the most popular current one being an electoral tie. Which made CNN's political analyst Jeff Greenfield, who described just such an electoral scenario in his novel "The People's Choice," something of an instant expert. It led to an inadvertently embarrassing moment though, when Bernard Shaw, evidently less than thoroughly familiar with his colleague's work, asked Greenfield, "How did the electors in your novel work out?" (Greenfield, to his credit, didn't finish his answer, "And thanks for reading it, Bernie...