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...Bush camp isn't waiting around. Karen Hughes hit the podium Saturday to take down the hand counts from their rear-view mirror. She said the campaign has eyewitness accounts of hand-counter mischief - Bush votes in the Gore pile, and the like - and accused Democrats of attempting to disqualify the votes of thousands of U.S. troops abroad. But can calling hand-counting "distorting, reinventing and miscounting" make the counts go away...
...Without the Electoral College, candidates would be inclined to spend most of their time in heavily-populated urban areas trying to pile up a huge number of votes," said Mickey Edwards, John Quincy Adams lecturer of legislative politics at the Kennedy School of Government...
Twenty-four seconds later, Badger defenseman Kerry Weiland took advantage of a huge pile-up in front of Kuusisto and squeezed one into the net for a 1-0 lead...
When Timon strikes after its final performance on Saturday, "X" will be reduced to a sizable pile of sawdust, but the memory of its mathematical glory will live...
Then there's Fred, the heating unit of last resort. Fred is the dog. You pile Fred on for extra warmth in extremis. But you think about it first. To begin with, there is the possibility of fleas. The second problem is that Fred, in the past year or so, has begun to snore, loudly and almost humanly. The other downside is that Fred smells doggy--not flagrantly, but enough. He's a farm dog. He gets around...