But even as Bush asked Dick Cheney to head a transition team and named Andrew Card his chief of staff, the Democratic faithful were primed to fight on--especially after Harris decided to leave out the results of the hand count Palm Beach canvassers stayed up all night to produce.

CNN: Bush's Contested Lead

Professor Dick van Velzen, head of foetal and infant pathology at Alder Hey between 1988 and 1995, was named by the Redfern report as being at the centre of the scandal.

BBC: Alder Hey doctors reported to GMC

Now it looks as if he is more interested in avoiding hard questions about Dick Cheney's spell as head of Halliburton or his own ties to dubious energy chiefs.

ECONOMIST: George Bush's Clintonian drift into crisis-management

Aug. 22, 1968 Chicago White Sox pitcher Tommy John throws a pitch over the head of Detroit's Dick McAuliffe, who charges the mound.

NPR: Players Hurt In Basebrawls

Alder Hey has confirmed that between 1988 and 1995, a total of 850 organs were stored at Liverpool University, by the then head of their post-mortem team, Professor Dick van Velzen.

BBC: News Online

In the 1968 Games, in Mexico City, the American high jumper Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by flipping himself over the bar head first and backward a technique now known as the Fosbury Flop.

NEWYORKER: Glory Days