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...been more visible to Colombians lately, and more vocal on domestic issues. Is the AUC trying to assert itself as a political force...
There's one habit Gore would need to shake immediately: his tendency to assert that those who disagree with him are agents of darkness. The prevail-at-all-costs style his team displays in Florida, the way he described this election as a question of whether "good overcomes evil"--that kind of tone won't win votes or influence people. Even some of Gore's aides wonder if he is nimble and flexible enough to execute the two-tack governing style that divided government would require. "The best case is that the Republicans would shift back and forth between cooperation...
...limited issue before me on this motion is whether the Secretary of State has violated my order of November 14, 2000," Lewis wrote. "The Plaintiffs assert that she has acted arbitrarily in deciding to ignore amended returns from counties conducting manual recounts. I disagree...
...asked, "Is The New Economy Dead?" [BUSINESS, Oct. 23]. Hardly. It just took a while for the dictum of the old economy to assert itself: a business is supposed to provide a product or service for a profit. Technical savvy and a dotcom tag are no substitutes for a sound business plan. I work for an information-technology company that has never lost money and has fueled growth through its own earnings. You should look at enterprises like ours instead of snickering at those whose overinflated financial balloons have been pricked by reality. Imagine, a profitable dotcom! ALEX LEKAS Fayetteville...
Networks have now accused VNS of providing bad data that led them to the make the multiple missed calls in the Florida race, and assert that the errors were not caused by poor internal analysis of that data...