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...greatest physical trauma in the life of the White House was its burning in 1814 by the British troops who marched nonchalantly down Pennsylvania Avenue; ate the meal prepared for James Madison, who had fled to Virginia; watched their commander, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, brandish Dolley Madison's chair cushion, declaring it would help him remember Dolley's "seat." The British sailors then torched the place...
...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...
...league's most consistent bottom-feeders, shocked everyone by sweeping the Big Red and the Red Raiders last weekend. As a result, Cornell (1-2-0, 1-1-0 ECAC) fell to fifth place, while Colgate Colgate (1-5-2, 0-2-0 ECAC) now brings up the rear with Brown...
Finally, and most importantly, we've learned that the age of statesmen, if it ever existed, is a long way back in the rear view mirror of American politics. Gone are the days when, in a close and corrupt election, Richard Nixon gracefully conceded the White House to John F. Kennedy's '40 mistresses, Jackie O.'s pillbox hats and J. Edgar Hoover's wiretaps. Instead, we have both campaigns girding themselves up for scorched-earth strategies, in which the fate of the presidency will be decided by poorly punched ballots, recount deadlines and judicial fiat...
...bright, sunny afternoon. You envision yourself hitting the longest drive of your life. You rear back and swing with all of your might... but instead of rocketing off into the pristine blue sky, the ball shanks to the right and crashes into the trees...