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Overall the female cast delivers an excellent set of performances, stealing the spotlight from the male characters. Of these, the cop played by B.J. Averell '02 is hilarious, yet somewhat unfittingly so, since as the only sane and honest person he should inspire more respect and fewer laughs. The father-son crime team is entertaining and carries well the grunt of violence and profanity in the play. A highlight worth mentioning is the kitchen decor, which cleverly incorporates many of the items that pop up in the dialogue. Tom's obsession with soup is made concrete by a stack...
...learned yesterday that the ruling party in Egypt maintained their huge majority, and consequently, the efforts of those who gave their lives in an effort to cast their votes did not actually affect any real change in their nation, but died trying...
...line: Those 10,000 votes aren't votes at all, but merely "non-votes," since they went unread by the vote-counting machines. They represent only 1.6 percent of the total votes cast in the county, a lower percentage than in 34 Florida counties, not to mention in plenty of other places nationwide. "Not every person that comes to an election" votes for president, insisted Terrell. "When they say these votes are votes, they're wrong...
...Gore also set out his own recipe for the much-plugged national healing that George W. Bush has been invoking in his own cause. "In many ways the act of voting and having that vote counted is more important than who wins the majority of the votes that are cast, because whoever wins the victor will know that the American people have spoken with a voice made mighty by the whole of its integrity...
...This is America," he said, grinning weirdly for emphasis. "When votes are cast, we count them. We don't arbitrarily set them aside because it's too difficult to count them...