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...last night, the Associated Press reported that updated vote totals gave Bush a tiny margin of 288 out of nearly 6 million cast, or one half of one ten thousandth of one percent...
...After 18 months and $286 million, the 2000 presidential election looked as if it might be decided by one-five-thousandth of 1% of the vote. Gore seemed to have won a moral victory, but he may not have won an actual one. His 222,880-vote lead in the popular tally was the fuel for his campaign's demand for a manual recount in some Florida counties, for time to register the outcome of the absentee ballots there, and for the nation to show some patience. And so the end of one campaign marked the beginning of another...
According to the website, even last year's record-breaking Senior Gift increased the endowment by less than a thousandth of a percent. And Edelman questions if the amount raised through the Senior Gift even covers its considerable fundraising costs. He said the Harvard College Fund claims to not have figures on the Senior Gift's overall profitability...
...they facilitate dialogue, as well as leisured self-reflection, in all its frames, between commercial breaks. Here's to the continuity of discourse and a life well and honestly lived, to the eight hundred and first word, to the fifty sixth-and-a-half and to the ten thousandth, and to all that goes unsaid...
...could see the lingering lure of Astaire art in the reaction to Frank Sinatra's death. That wasn't just Rat Pack nostalgia. It was an effusion of fondness and respect for a fine song finely sung, for vocal connoisseurship, for the ability--the first or the thousandth time he sings a song--to mine the meaning of a lyric...