Word: abyss
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...Justices were reading the newspapers this weekend, they know that if the 5-4 split holds they'll be painted red and blue like everybody else, and the nation expects the Supreme Court to blanch at that political abyss. Scalia, along with his silent partner Clarence Thomas, has plenty of experience playing the role of Public Enemy No. 1 with half the nation. With a presidential election on the line and historians expecting something grand, he's likely to want to avoid sitting in that box this time around. So don't be surprised if he and Rehnquist, holding...
...initial recount, the U.S. Supremes slapping that ruling back to Florida - Bush and Gore knew which courts tended to smile on their claims. On Friday night, Gore told TIME that he was "not all that surprised" by that day's state supreme court decision rescuing him from the abyss. "I had a feeling from the start that the principle that every vote should be counted would end up prevailing." But he hadn't predicted what the U.S. Supreme Court did the next day. About the prospects for Bush's appeal, he said, "I still have that same faith...
...Florida's secretary of state, to announce a final statewide vote tally on Saturday--one that ignored hand recounts in three Democratic counties. The decision left the men who were leading the charge for Gore--campaign chairman Bill Daley and former Secretary of State Warren Christopher--staring into the abyss. Without the hand-counted votes, Harris would surely declare Bush the winner--and Gore's options would evaporate. Bush would throw a victory party, and the calls for Gore to concede would grow deafening. New court challenges, like the one in Palm Beach over the butterfly ballot that...
...great American rhinoceros has become a brilliant tightrope walker. Who imagined that the greatest power the earth has ever known could balance its corpulent, corporate self so exquisitely and walk across the bridge into the 21st century as if toeing a cable over the abyss...
...past six weeks, tensions have steadily mounted between Israelis and Palestinians; as of yesterday, 207 lives had been lost in this latest surge of violence, many of them civilians. The Oslo peace process, so promising until late September, teeters on the edge of an abyss; at any moment, the careful work of the last seven years crashing down...