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...went back to the pool for some diving, and this Texan, Laura Wilkinson, came from way back to win the women's platform - on a broken foot! She broke it practicing six months ago and hasn't had surgery yet. She had to wear a special shoe just to climb the ladder. In the last dives, she was nearly perfect, and the Chinese and Canadians started doing belly flops and cannonballs. The crowd was moaning, the dives were so bad. Wilkinson won, and said the foot felt fine: "I'm so happy I don't feel a thing...
...dark night of his own soul. Bush, on the other hand, delivered the emotional arc Oprah's fans tune in for, speaking of God and his battle with alcohol. The money shot was a tear in his eye, better even than Clinton's lip biting, as he described Laura's difficult pregnancy. His eyes still glistened after the commercial break...
...Birthday" to his press secretary, Juleanna Glover Weiss, and was ready with a penknife when she couldn't open Cheney's gift to her, a CD by Peter Gabriel featuring the song "Big Time," a nicely self-deprecating gesture. This gave his wife, temperamentally a dead ringer for Dr. Laura, a chance to joke that she would have to vet the lyrics. Lynne Cheney, a former culture czar and her husband's primary handler, has been more voluble during the campaign than her husband, especially in denouncing Hollywood. Like the independent counsel putting all the dirty stuff into the Starr...
...Freshman Laura Wooley also added to Connecticut's strong offense with 14 kills on her way to her third double-double of the year. She led the team with 16 digs...
These are exciting times around our house, and it's not the economy, stupid. It's the election. Our two-year-old loves the balloons. Our seven-year-old can't wait to vote in our upcoming bake-off between Tipper Gore's Ginger Snaps and Laura Bush's Texas Governor's Mansion Cowboy Cookies. And our 10-year-old still can't get over the friendship between Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones...