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Hard numbers from respected pollsters are showing Gore in trouble in Minnesota, a Democratic mainstay in seven of the past eight elections, and Even in states that seem a total given, like Massachusetts or Texas, the Gore vs. Bush percentages will matter, in a media environment as data-hungry as this one, a strong Gore showing in Texas might help sway a late-deciding voter in Washington that Democratic is the way to go. The closeness of the House and Senate balance has also received only undercard status this year--a good Democrat turnout could dramatically change the balance...
...Frayne's tale of friendship, betrayal and nuclear physics is still running strong on the West End. Thanks to Michael Blakemore's powerful direction - who would have thought three actors, three chairs, and page-long monologues about quantum mechanics could be so captivating? - the show looks to be a mainstay of the London theater scene. But there's hardly enough new activity to warrant excitement. The big news is that Joe Penhall finally broke the National Theater's string of poorly received new plays with his new work Blue/Orange, a gripping (if somewhat clinical) treatment of the politics of mental...
...looks like a catalog shopper. He may have dissed the drug dealer Peoples in his Egyptian cotton as a "cheap knockoff mutha-----" but Shaft's own styling is unlikely to inspire any new look, precisely because its baldheaded, black-polo-neck-and-raincoat look has long since been a mainstay of R&B music videos...
...Noted professor of early American history and literature Alan E. Heimert '49, a mainstay on Harvard's campus for more than 50 years, died Nov. 1 in New York City of a heart attack...
...most recent victim of internal division has been the council's "Harvard Census 2000." The mainstay of Driskell's platform, the census would have been a way for the council both to gather student input and to convey legitimately that input to administrators. But this admirable project, which would have done much to restore much of the council's credibility, was met with stubborn resistance by council conservatives. Although the project withstood a funding challenge, these council members--led by those who voted earlier to remove Burton--managed to seriously curtail the project's visibility. Now, the council expected...