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...What are they? Undervotes are ballots that contain votes in some races but not all. Sometimes undervotes are intentional: The voter simply couldn't decide on a candidate, so that part of the ballot was left blank. But sometimes the machine reading a ballot misses a vote that was cast. That can happen when, for example, a chad isn't fully dislodged from a punch card. Florida has more than 61,000 undervoted ballots from this year's presidential race, a large but not shocking number for a state that uses old Votomatics...
...structured as a romance-the greatest shortcoming of the screenplay is its failure to develop Thorne's central conflict, in which a man who's always in control finds that what he has to do has become almost directly opposed to what he wants to do. The cast, otherwise, is almost uniformly excellent. Ryan's career has all but been damned by her natural fit with fluff like You've Got Mail, and while she is hardly in the same league as heavyweights like Kate Winslet and Julianne Moore, her acting does have a deceptive rawness to it. Crowe, meanwhile...
...world premiere of Donald Martino's Romanza, written especially for Schulte for this concert. The work, for solo violin, opened with extreme intervallic explorations that lead to variations that increase in intensity. As the composer wrote in the program notes, "The sets of variations at first are cast within traditional phrase-length boundaries, but as the line unfolds, these become freer and more fanciful." The three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin seamlessly and idiomatically alternated between bowed and plucked...
...question for Lewis and Clark was, as Clark put it at the start of her trial, whether it "adversely affected the sanctity of the election." And would the legal remedy - the trashing of some 25,000 legally cast ballots from both counties (or a statistically derived smaller number, as the Democrats in the Seminole case had offered) - do still more damage to that very sanctity...
...Senate, of course, is split 50-50. And Al Gore - still the vice president - will cast the tying vote. Which splits the Senate from the House, and which throws the election of the president of the United States back to Florida's chief executive officer: Jeb Bush...