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...battle will take place this Saturday in the New Leverett Courtyard following the conclusion of the game across the river. A tarp will provide cover in case of rain...
...drawers looking for an envelope. Then I hunt for a stamp with the proper first-class postage. (Jeez! Hard to believe that dog-eared 29[cents] stamp hasn't been good for nine years.) And then, like everyone else, I wait for the U.S. Postal Service to brave snow, rain, heat and gloom of night to deliver my letter--days later...
...other man - bleary-eyed, wired, hoarse, drained of everything but spirit after campaigning for 30 hours straight - had never even made it to bed, and he was not about to stop. Gore began Monday at dawn in the rain outside the John Deere factory in, of all places, Waterloo, Iowa, then on to Missouri, Michigan and Florida, where as the sun came up, he delivered Cuban pastries from a local bakery to hundreds of cheering volunteers. The reporters trailing him by this time had propped their tape recorders up on the tables and curled up underneath them...
...screaming and crying," McKinnon says. Virtually the entire staff in the headquarters left the building, forming a dance line up Congress Avenue along the eight blocks to the celebration site. The colored lights were flashing on the capitol; it's a miracle no one was electrocuted in the sweeping rain. At the rally the television screens switched to a video of Bush on the trail, at home and on the ranch, all to the tune of Signed, Sealed, Delivered...
...cold, damp night, his supporters were waiting for word. For a brief time, they debated the idea of rewriting the concession speech to capture the suspended animation and having Gore go out and give it. The Veep's concern was that all these people had waited hours in the rain, and they would want to see him in person. But they quickly decided to send Daley out instead. Daley and Karenna stood over speechwriter Eli Attie and shouted their ideas at him as he tapped out the draft of what the chairman would...