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Lincoln's White House was crowded with distraught parents, favor seekers, war contractors and staff members who brought the war news, much of it discouraging. So that Lincoln might speak to the crowds that gathered beneath the North Portico, candles were put in a narrow passageway that led from the private quarters to a window overlooking the drive. From there he could talk to the people below in relative safety, and often he did, his face outlined in flickering light. The corridor remains a tiny shrine in the modern White House...
...outcome in Florida, and thus the nation, has shifted to the most low-tech of fronts. Everything hinges on the absentee votes still drifting in from abroad, which are not expected to be fully counted until this Friday. Even more important, because they could easily reverse Bush's narrow lead, are the manual recounts that have been approved by local electoral commissions in Palm Beach, Broward and Volusia counties...
...issue were tabulated, so she may be hard-pressed to argue that she really took into account all the relevant facts. Her critics say she acted before the votes were in for a partisan reason: because she did not want the hand recounting to continue, perhaps eroding Bush's narrow lead. But in her defense, Harris can say, as she has repeatedly, that she was just enforcing the deadline for reporting votes set out by the Florida legislature. It's not a completely frivolous point: the law can often be strict about deadlines. In 1992 Virginia executed convicted killer Roger...
...candidates are somewhat like the schools from which they come. The universities also fight for the narrow middle ground...
...Harvard and Yale football coaches also battle for that narrow group of athletes good enough academically to attend Harvard or Yale but bad enough on the field to keep them from attending Stanford...