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There is a possible explanation for the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial ruling ending the Florida recounts and allowing Bush to prevail [PERSON OF THE YEAR, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. Perhaps the court did this to spare the nation further turmoil. Many Americans were alarmed by the subjective nature of hand counts in selected Florida counties. The images of canvassing-board members squinting to discern voter intent is unfortunately burned in our memory. The court's ruling brought closure to chaos. RANDALL FOUTCH Farmington Hills, Mich...
...holidays currently mar the efficient academic calendar, and Harvard has remained stalwart in its opposition to the celebration of Patriots Day--a shameful practice for a school that calls Massachusetts home. Yet no matter how busy the students, professors and administrators of Harvard may be, if the University can spare a day every February to remember the great presidents of the past, it can take time once every four years to celebrate the potential of the next administration, to listen to the vision of those serving in our nation's highest office...
...lights finally went out in the Golden State. Wednesday afternoon, the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO for short, unofficial slogan "We keep the lights on") ordered rolling blackouts that began in northern and central California and could even extend to the southern part of the state - Please! Spare Hollywood! - before long...
...Year's ball in Times Square drops I plan the new year's shopping calendar. Especially in a quasi-economic slowdown, shoppers target seasonal and end-of-season sales. Buying gifts and replacing household and personal items throughout the year can save a lot of money and spare you the holiday crush. And by matching birth dates, anniversaries and vacations to clearance sales, markdowns and promotional sales, you map a path around financial landmines. Here is a month-by-month guide...
...four collections: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Cathedral (1983); and Where I'm Calling From (1988). Carver's stories also became a staple in Esquire during the 1970s and the New Yorker in the '80s. His voice--spare, understated, unsentimental--and his typical subject matter--moments of truth in the lives of hard-luck men and women who know they are failing in a country consecrated to success--became immediately recognizable. Carver resisted the trend toward gentrification in U.S. fiction, the Jamesian notion that only those with fine...