WASHINGTON, D.C. - It's midnight on election night. Hundreds of people are gathered around the stage and monitors.
RICHMOND, Va. - When Sen. Chuck Robb (R) took the stage last night to the cheerful strains of a John Phillip Sousa march, I could have sworn I was about to witness a victory speech.
AUSTIN, Tex. - In the hill country of Texas, the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" resonated throughout the thin steel walls of Hangar One at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
NEW YORK - It was Club Clinton on the corner of 42nd and Park Ave. last night, but everyone there knew they were just pre-partying before the main event.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A good way to describe the evening before this year's presidential election is all-out fighting in the final hours, with the candidates throwing their last punches into the ring before the polls finally opened.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - On Election Day, one candidate is supposed to win and the other one is supposed to lose.
THE MOST surprising yet least surprising thing said was, "No, really, we're sick of being first!" It's no wonder.
SOME OF the best things in life reside beneath the surface. Rose quartz is enclosed by metamorphic rock.
RICHMOND, Va. - Republican George Allen likes to smile. Throughout his campaign for the Senate, few photographs of the former Republican governor showed him without a friendly, come-on-out-to-the-back-porch grin.
WHEN I was younger, watching "The Oprah Winfrey Show" used to upset me. I would watch as people told amazing stories of courage and achievement and were then praised for having "good Christian values." As a young Jewish girl, I would wonder if not sharing the religious views of the majority made me immoral.
MY FAVORITE movie by a landslide is "It's A Wonderful Life." Maybe it's because our family only watches it during the Christmas season, and it will always remind me of the holidays.
DIVERSITY! I think I just saw a collective cringe. Diversity is one of those words that just pops up all the time in contemporary higher education circles.
NEW YORK, NY - Penn Station, 12:30 p.m. Sullen passengers stand looking at their schedules, the smell of spiced kabob lingering in the air.
NASHVILLE, TN - Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Except in Nashville. Here, after eight years of Gore serving in Washington and not in Tennessee, Gore's Tuesday return is not met with much enthusiasm. It might be the expected bottleneck traffic, it might be all the tourists, it might even be their bad attitudes - most of these tourists are journalists, and far too many journalists are on a cutthroat mission for a lead story.
AUSTIN, TX - When I think about Texas, a few things usually come to mind. It's hot. It's big. The people are extra friendly.
WHERE have all the men gone? In the last few years, educators have observed that male enrollment at universities has decreased dramatically.
IN MY OCT. 16 column ("Offended read-ers shouldn't assume editorial cartoons only aim at humor"), I had supported the use of an editorial cartoon in addressing the presence of an armed robber near Grounds.
WHEN WE attempt to reduce PLO leader Yasser Arafat's efforts at the Middle East peace process to a single word - terrorism - we do little justice to him, his organization, his people and our own intellect.
NOV. 8. Yeah, yeah, we'll know who's going to be the next president. Big deal. Discard your foolish notions of what's important.
WHAT A nuisance it is to vote in this country. Even already registered voters have to jump through many hoops in order to cast their ballot.
