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Another character, called "you," is on a quest to reach Lingshan, "ling meaning spirit or soul, and shan meaning mountain." He, "you" is told, will find this place at "the source of the You River." Along the way, he meets a woman, called "she," who morphs throughout the book into many different women, sometimes married, sometimes not, who have in common a pronounced tendency to whine: "She says she never wants to grow up and yet she also wants to grow up. She wants to be loved, wants everyone to look at her, but she's afraid...
...Baker-style grenades at the partisanship of the Court - the media would kill him for it. He'll just soberly, and correctly, insist that the Court ruled on his protest but not his contest (which lives on in the Florida courts at least through Saturday). His noble, selfless quest to "count all the votes" must continue for the good of democracy...
...thoroughly planted article titled "Gore Is Said to Harbor Unshakeable Conviction That He Has Won the Election." John M. Broder's survey of Gore's "associates" included such lines as "Mr. Gore is frustrated, even embarrassed, they say, by the legal maneuvering he has set in motion in this quest to prove he won the balloting in Florida." (We know how he feels.) That was the appetizer for the Sunday shows; Gore will serve the main course Monday night...
...speech, Bush nailed Gore's problem right on the head: "Time runs short, and we have a lot of work to do." We also have Christmas shopping to do, and we want a president one of these days. Bush, in his quest to speed up the clock, is in perfect position as a candidate who ran as "a uniter, not a divider" - and it sure looks like America could use some of that, even if it has to swallow some nagging questions...
...real game for Harvard already happened two nights ago as the Crimson's quest for retribution was postponed for a few more months...