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...strongest unifying force among most black voters is a shared rage against Bush. That resentment was ignited during the Florida recount fiasco, which many blacks perceived as rigged against them in all too familiar ways. Says four-term Georgia state senator Vincent Fort: "After Florida and four years of an extreme right-wing agenda, after seeing George W. Bush lay a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. and then turn around and go back to Washington and appoint a [Mississippi judge] Charles Pickering [Sr.] to the federal bench--I think the African-American voter will be energized...
Shoemaker said that in his day Holyoke was nicknamed “Guts” by students “for his substantial girth,” and that today College tour guides frequently recount to prospective students his unsuccessful efforts to save old Harvard Hall from a fire...
...Katherine will energize certain forces in the electorate when the President is on the ballot that may not need to be reminded of what happened in 2000." MARK FOLEY, Republican Congressman, on the possibility that Katherine Harris--Florida's secretary of state during the disputed 2000 election recount--will enter the race for the U.S. Senate...
...often as he can, in which that madman Saddam becomes that “sadman Maddam” who has weapons of “ass mannihilation,” Bush is a “learless feeder,” and Clinton laments, in regard to the Florida recount, “That’s no way to lick a peter.” Strauss was once a resident of Adams House and sometimes talks backwards without warning...
...writer A.E. Hotchner, had a good product (the actor's homemade salad dressing) but lacked the experience to launch it in the hotly contested world of packaged goods. In this excerpt from the forthcoming Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; $22.95), the two recount their experiences in trying to get a business off the ground...