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celebrated their man on the road to victory, then saw their victory start to slip away; Texas Gov. George W. Bush had been declared the victor, and then the networks had retracted this announcement...
...years, Rollins has been accused of fielding a mediocre band to serve as a foil for his spectacular extemporaneous flights. The same cannot be said of his present band. In pianist Stephen Scott and trombonist Clifton Anderson, Rollins has two tremendous talents with which to share feature time. Percussionist Victor See-Yuen, drummer Perry Wilson and bassist Bob Cranshaw (an intermitent member of Rollins' bands for 40 years) keep rock-solid time and provide the springboard for the virtuosic solos of the three leads...
...while the apparatus of election night is being removed, the question of the victor--and the recount--is hardly disappearing...
...what may go down as the strangest presidential election night in United States history, a victor was declared who was not yet a victor, a concession speech was awaited but never came, and an old-style Texas victory party was left in the lurch...
...assuming that most Nader voters would have cast ballots for Gore were Nader not in the race--as exit polls suggested--he will have did well enough in key states to throw the election to Bush, if Bush is ultimately declared victor in Florida...