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...Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was best known as Dr. Seuss and sold up to 400 million books, would approve of his final resting place, for there was a bit of the Grinch in him. He cherished the solitude of his mountaintop retreat, and he never had children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept...
...intifada. Many are saying privately that they don't have an answer when they go to their leaders with this question. They're just hoping to pressure Israel into making the next move. At the beginning, Hussein Sheikh told us it was the 'battle for final status,' saying the uprising was necessary to strengthen the Palestinians' negotiating position. But right now that looks unlikely...
...democracy, we count votes, we do not weigh them. But the last and final votes counted, like the ones in Palm Beach county, seem like they have more weight. They don't. It only seems that way. There are a thousand other counties in this country that if you put them under the microscope would look as nasty as Palm Beach...
...tallies accounted for Mattison's first points of the year and could not have come at a more perfect time, as the Crimson snapped a losing streak that had spanned the final five games of the regular season...
...under way in the largest county in New Mexico, which could of course tip that state to his candidate. One may soon come to Iowa, which also narrowly went for Al Gore. And maybe Wisconsin and Washington too. And don't forget Oregon, which hasn't even reported a final tally yet. And then there's California - the state's top Republican says his state's 1 million ballots well may tip the electoral brass ring to Bush. (Gore's people confined themselves to murmuring about New Hampshire, which went narrowly for Bush...