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Exit polls? Maybe. Absentee ballots are counted long after winners are announced and propositions approved. Pundits mention that absentee ballots have yet to be counted, may tip the balance, but it is unlikely. So my carefully punched-in holes wallow away. Does every vote really count...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Long-Distance Democracy | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...field, a recently-unknown career minor leaguer, Shane Spencer, has become the unlikely Pride of the Yankees following a month of Hollywood-style home run heroics. And, in pro football, the Saints and Seahawks all boast winning records while the once-mighty Redskins, Bears and Bills wallow in last place...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: News Through the Looking Glass | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard must unfairly wallow in the disrespect afforded it by the national media, and Feaster must suffer because she chose to get a top-quality education while playing basketball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUARDO PEREZ-GIZ | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

...took to the airwaves--what else?--to assure her flock that she too had joined the national wallow, albeit in her own private Windsor way. She begged their indulgence as she too tried--here she reached for the supreme code word of touchy-feely self-pity--to "cope." This performance was not exactly Henry II having himself ostentatiously flogged for causing the death of Thomas Becket. But it was, in its own bloodless way, mortifying--as the Queen's frenzied subjects meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT DI TURNAROUND | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...happy chance, warthogs and meerkats also make neat zoo animals. Unlike most desert creatures, including lions, both are busy during the day. Warthogs wallow in mud (it's their sunscreen) and throw clumps of it at one another. Meerkats, highly gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER ZOOS: WARTS AND ALL | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

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