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...heat and the outcome would have to await, at the very least, an automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate in an instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting for a thorough recount and then open the next segment with the question "When, in the name...
...Gore side has made its mistakes. Gore's people should have insisted on a full recount, not cherry-picked counties and a no-dimpled-chad standard. They should have conceded that there is not a remedy for every flaw - the butterfly ballots creating Jews for Buchanan, Republicans being allowed to fix Republican absentee-ballot applications...
...EAST TIMOR Nation in Waiting More than 90% of voters flocked to the polls in their first chance to elect their own government in the territory's turbulent history. East Timor will become the world's newest nation next year after the 88 M.P.s chosen in the ballot are sworn in. The Fretilin party, which led the fight for independence from Indonesia two years ago, was expected to win an overwhelming majority...
...formal notification. A Pentagon plan to begin missile defense testing at a site in Alaska in the spring would necessitate abandoning the ABM pact by late fall. Russia made no official reply to the announcement. BRITAIN Tory Story The battle for leadership of the Conservative Party heated up, as ballot papers were sent to 300,000 party members and former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major weighed in behind contenders Iain Duncan Smith and Kenneth Clarke, respectively. In the candidates' first head-to-head television debate, the fault line once again developed around Britain's relationship with Europe. Duncan...
...Zagat tries to make sure that the ballot box isn?t stuffed by chefs and restaurateurs eager for a high rating. "There?s a control group which overall rankings are compared to. It?s rare when there are big variations." (So why not just use the control group?) Zagat also severely edits the opinions, usually quoting only a few snippets in any item. For the raw, logorrheic voice of the people, check out the movie websites: the anyone-can-play screeds on the Internet Movie Database or on the film page of epinions.com. It?s instructive, and wearying. Those...