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...desserts, the best pickles, the best places to take the kids. Does she miss "hard news"? "People who in all those years were never knocked out by what I did now come up to me at cocktail parties," Finch says, laughing. "They want to know, 'Can I get a ticket to Emeril? What is Bobby Flay like?'" Not bad for a nonfoodie who says her favorite foods are still broccoli and macaroni and cheese...
...politicians, electoral officials and lawyers arm-wrestle over Florida's 25 electoral votes, London and others like him have seen their ballots balloon in significance. Especially people like London, who doesn't always vote a straight ticket - this year he actually voted for Gore. "It wasn't because of Lieberman," says London. "I always voted on who I thought was the best man, and in my estimation the difference is that Gore knows the difference between right and wrong in the leadership of America. Also, I think that Gore is a deep and strong friend of Israel. It's hard...
...Frustration with the Palm Beach ballot had begun to go public even before the polls closed. At the Lucerne Point residence community, poll workers were so overwhelmed by complaints that they had to draw a diagram showing where each ticket's punch hole was located. Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach County election supervisor who had signed off on the ballot design, soon arranged for a flyer to be distributed at polling places around the county that would help voters decipher it. LePore, a Democrat, told reporters that day that she had favored the design partly because it permitted larger type...
...hasn't resigned yet? He won't potentially be sworn in as vice president until Jan. 20, right? A: Yes. Lieberman will be a member of the new Senate for a few days and then he could resign as late as noon on Jan. 20, when, if his ticket wins, he'd become vice president. He's not allowed to hold both jobs at the same time...
...mail system. They confirmed what some Bush aides had feared, that they had lost momentum in the closing days. Last guys don't finish nice, and Gore had hit Bush hard on not being ready to lead, not even knowing that Social Security was a federal program. The ticket that promised to restore honor and dignity to the White House turned out to have four arrests between them; the news of Bush's drunk-driving record was hurting, said a senior Bush adviser. "That's the only thing that changed in the last days of the campaign." Voters...