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...Meanwhile at MSNBC, the razor-close election is bringing out the fractious Irish ward politician in Chris Matthews, who's cajoling Paul Begala and Mike Barnicle to spin out fantasies of missing ballot boxes and court challenges. Indeed, as the vote total in Florida is shading toward Bush, the best chance for a dragged-out bloodbath for TV to cover may now be a legal challenge. On ABC, Peter Jennings is asking every Democratic politician who comes on the air whether Gore should fight over close states in court...
...widower and his kids. The single-mom heroine of the WB's Gilmore Girls was knocked up as a teen; the grownup star of Fox's Titus gets knocked out by his hard-drinking, oft divorced dad. On Fox's Normal, Ohio, Dad is divorced and gay. From Ward and June Cleaver, we've gone to Ward and June, cleaved...
...matter what your reason for voting for Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore - to keep Al Gore out of the White House or to ward off the Religious Right - your vote will be interpreted as an endorsement of every big-government proposal your candidate has made... Every vote I get will be an endorsement, a statement, a declaration on behalf of smaller government. No one can misinterpret a vote for me as a vote for more government...
There Rich glimpsed a life beyond his fractious home. Sneaking into a lonely, darkened Broadway theater, he saw the crew strike the set, leaving behind a naked light bulb on a tall pole--a "ghost light," meant to ward off spirits. That image--the idea of the theater as a welcoming place where the light never goes out--sparked in him "the fantasy that I might extract some glittering consolation prize for being different and alone." Rich became a theater geek nonpareil, an awkward Jewish kid who, making his Bar Mitzvah, recognized the designer of the temple's ark from...
...widower and his kids. The single-mom heroine of the WB's "Gilmore Girls" was knocked up as a teen; the grown-up star of Fox's "Titus" gets knocked out by his hard-drinking, oft-divorced dad. On Fox's "Normal, Ohio," dad is divorced and gay. From Ward and June Cleaver we've gone to Ward and June, cleaved...