North Carolina lottery gets a leg-up

Schools in North Carolina are to get an extra half-billion dollars a year in funding - and all thanks to one Republican senator's bad leg! "It's a dark day for North Carolina," Church leaders warned, and some sour-puss school district chiefs still feel it's bad public policy. One school official had the grace to welcome the extra money, though, saying the senate's decision had actually renewed his faith in the legislative process. Considering how it sneaked past the Senate - after the session had officially closed and with one anti-lottery senator on his honeymoon and the other in bed with a bad leg - faith is a weird and wonderful thing in the South.