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Bartholomew ran again over the left side on the next play for a gain of three yards. Lee dropped back to pass on second-and-7 and found Johnson who took the ball to the Harvard 11-yard line. Bartholomew ran on first and ten to gain one yard on the play...
Each of the White House rooms would gain its own history of important events and important people. Today the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room are probably the most famous chambers because of the deliberations of war and peace in the past half-century. The East Room and the State Dining Room have always been halls for mingling, feeding and entertaining hundreds of people. Ulysses S. Grant, summoned to Washington to command Union armies, arrived when Abraham Lincoln was in the midst of an evening reception. Grant stood on a sofa in the East Room so that the worshipful guests...
...Bush prevails, he will be the winner by a technicality--a badly designed ballot in Palm Beach County--and, perhaps, the first President in 112 years to gain office despite losing the popular vote. All his talk about gliding into Washington on the wings of a popular mandate--"a messenger of the people," as he once said--will be forgotten. If the Florida recount swings to Gore, he will have earned whisper-thin popular and electoral victories and the undying suspicion of millions of Bush supporters--people who absorbed the inaccurate Tuesday-night news reports that Bush...
...forged and phony absentee ballots. One belonged to a dead guy named Manuel Yip, who, it turned out, had been voting regularly from the afterlife. Further investigation revealed some 17,000 deceased persons on state voting rolls. (Note to Tim Russert: of the two presidential contenders, Bush stands to gain the most from a high Florida turnout of dead and fictitious voters, as they tend to be Republican...
...Ordering a cease-fire without appearing to gain much in return was always going to test Arafat's political authority even among his own supporters, and not only the opposition Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions which have openly challenged Arafat's leadership but even the rank-and-file militiamen of his own Fatah organization have vowed to defy his cease-fire call. High-profile terror attacks have until now been the Islamists most effective weapon against any moves toward peace; they're not unpopular on the Palestinian street, and the rage they generate in Israel creates irresistible political pressure...