Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Kimball Brace, the founder and president of tiny Election Data Services, shambled up to the witness stand of Judge Sanders Sauls' Leon County omnibus hearing-for-the-presidency, bespectacled and bookish, grayed and shaggy - like Pat Caddell's older and even geekier brother. A political scientist by education and a demographer (sort of) by trade, he's also been looking in on the election offices and voting booths of this great nation for 25 years. He'd even brought his own Votomatic, just like they use in Palm Beach, which he'd owned since the '70s. And after a meticulous...
...this year, the freshman class is nearly 61% female. In a freshman English tutorial, small clusters of men sit quietly as women dominate class discussions. But outside class, the mood on campus is distinctly male friendly. Tyler Willingham, social chair of the Sigma Nu fraternity, observes that at parties, even guys without dates can choose from "many beautiful women...
...Still, Griffith, the Fairfax City school-board member, believes that "so far, the Latin looks like a good investment." He took encouragement from the confident smiles of Amy High's students each time they correctly responded to a question. "They're so receptive," says High. "They don't even know they're learning...
...dimpled intent. Whoops. Boies, looking for another 600 votes, is also suing for a recount of the hand count in Palm Beach. If Gore's witness for his case in Miami-Dade turns out to be credible, he'll have done some work for Bush in Palm Beach. Beck even got in some hacking at Brace's "proffer" to the Florida Supremes, just to salt the furrows a little...
When the first U.S. women's colleges were founded in the mid-1800s, their mission was clear: to teach females, who were largely excluded from higher education. And even as more institutions opened their doors to both genders, studies found that many women learned more in a female-only environment, where, among other benefits, there were no men to dominate classroom discussions. But what's to become of women's colleges now, as a new generation of female students has confidently outperformed males since elementary school and become the majority at most mainstream colleges and universities...