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...Supreme Court would have no choice but to lower the boom on the state justices. The senators weren't convinced. They worried that the Supreme Court wouldn't move quickly enough to stop the recount before Gore pulled ahead and the media announced a new winner. That could alter the landscape drastically - and permanently...
...Drawn and pale, Boies took some time to get warmed up - and really only scored points at the end of his rebuttal, when he insisted there was precedent for limited recounts. In order to rule otherwise, Boies argued, the court would have to do the unthinkable: Alter existing...
...council's executive board has final control over deadlines and may alter the dates as circumstances develop, he said...
...scoured the state for examples of alleged election irregularities." Hence the parade of Gore supporters eager to testify on camera to their inability to read a ballot. Hence the sit-ins and demonstrations, the legal action and partisan pressure--in essence, the postelection election campaign. Such maneuvers, intended to alter the result of an election after the balloting, are the kind of spectacle one expects in a banana republic. Win or lose, Gore's threats of protracted political and legal action to overturn unfavorable results constitutes a reckless endangerment of the American constitutional system...
Yale's financial move may alter the playing field in the competition for top international applicants...