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...addition to staging a variety of light-hearted actions and a mock Christmas pageant, living wage campaign members have spent the past semester meeting with students and campus workers to garner support for their cause...
...actually two character tests, one public, one personal--the one we praise and the one we really watch. We celebrate the peaceful transition of power in a democracy; and then we sit back and judge how the players perform--how graceful the losers, how gracious the winners, a fierce pageant of patriotism and pride and prejudice all tightly staged on the west front of the Capitol. The cameras could barely decide where to go on that rainy Saturday. There was just so much to see: Jim Baker, the smiling Florida gravedigger, greeting Al Gore, the man buried alive; Jimmy Carter...
George W. Bush surprised more than a few pundits Sunday night by making what amounted to a 19-day-old acceptance speech after Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris certified his 537-vote victory in Florida. But look at his choices in this post-election Mr. President pageant: spend the next five days as a lowly candidate or make them work for you as a putative president-elect, intent on beginning the delicate work of reuniting a divided nation...
...shouldn't be an impossible sell. Few of this pageant's judges - the wide and semi-passionate center of the electorate - believe that either Gore or Bush is trying to "steal" the election. Most are sympathetic to the idea of manual recounts, and those who followed the story over Thanksgiving weekend probably have some sense that the manual recount in Palm Beach, at least, did not get a fair shake. (Certainly a smirking Katherine Harris did Bush no p.r. favors by getting needlessly stingy with a legally flexible 5 p.m. deadline...
...pageant b) An exploitative meat market c) A dating pool for second-rate baseball players d) A fast track to infomercials...