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This leaves the new coach with a mountain of problems to overcome, with no returning starters averaging more than eight points per game. C.J. Chapman returns as the only reliable scorer. The 6'1 guard is 11th all-time in three-point shooting for Princeton. Junior Ahmed El-Nokali (6.5 ppg) will remain the starting point guard for the Tigers...
...this Seuss all of a sudden? For the answer, go to the top of the mountain, to the petite, 79-year-old blond, blue-eyed widow. When she met Ted Geisel in the mid-1960s, she was still married to physician Grey Dimond, with whom she had two daughters. After her divorce, and after Ted's first wife, Helen, committed suicide in 1967, Audrey and Ted were married. Until the end of his life, Audrey devoted herself to his care. "The idea was to keep the body there so it could take that mind as far as it wanted...
...Howard studied Seuss's 1957 tale of the pompous, lonesome mountain creature who, for reasons never fully explained in the book, tries to ruin Christmas for the adorable citizens of Who-ville. Howard became intrigued by Cindy-Lou Who, "since she's the only Who that you see up close [in the book]," he says, and pitched Geisel a film in which the little girl would play a larger role and the Grinch's background would be fleshed out (turns out he was a troubled youth before his exile). Geisel bit, and Howard decided to sign on as director...
...premature calling of states on the East Coast, for example, can have a major effect on the results of the election. Voters on the West Coast are able to watch the East Coast's results before their polls close. This has the potential to discourage voters from the Central, Mountain and Pacific Time Zones from voting, thus changing the outcome of important local, state, and national elections...
With Florida up for grabs, Bush held a strong lead over Gore for the first time, and the likelihood of victory seemed closer as the Bush-friendly Mountain states still lay ahead...