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This was baffling, the theme does not allow you to highlight
text. I believed this to be a function within the theme that
blocked cutting and copying text...
I turned off java in my browser, thinking it was java code,
without effect, still couldn't highlight text. It didn't matter
if I was viewing a a web page or editing a news page.
I finally found the source of the problem.
Lines 107 and 108 of style.css sets the selection style to be
the same as normal text. These settings makes it look like
you can't highlight, which was not the case. You could,
you just couldn't see what was highlighted. It made me
believe that cut and copy were disabled, which was not
true.
Commenting out lines 107, and 108 reverts to normal
selection highlighting, cut and copy work just fine.