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...With reporting by Melissa August/Washington, Julie Grace/Chicago, Maureen Harrington/Gillette, Hilary Hylton/Austin, Sylvester Monroe/Daytona Beach and James Willwerth/Los Angeles
...establish communications from the Cole after the blast? How did we end up with a U.S. warship that could not transmit an SOS! This is where unbelievable runs into inexcusable, which is really scary, because who knows the extent of our Navy's unreadiness? BRADFORD J. KEENE Redondo Beach, Calif...
...Monday, the GOP lawyers in Palm Beach tried to get the eight lawsuits over the Palm Beach ballot consolidated at the state level in Tallahassee, but Monday the judge recused himself and it's a waiting game again. Republicans may appeal the afternoon's hand-recount ruling. But Harris - and the news out of the Volusia/Gore suit that will determine whether that Tuesday deadline holds - may the Bush camp's best hope to keep this thing under control...
...recounts, and a judge with little appreciation for good-of-the-nation atmospherics could easily conclude that it's common sense for the certification deadline to come and go before those recounts are done. (Volusia County, oddly, expects to have its recount completed in time, but an eager Palm Beach, Dade and others are waiting in the wings.) And then it's our problem too - a hand recount in Palm Beach or Dade could take weeks, and easily run up against that December 18 electoral college coven. And at that point things get much, much weirder...
...Rabbi Menachem Raab, former dean of a Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach, retired to Israel two and a half years ago. A registered Democrat in Dade County, Raab voted for Gore on his absentee ballot. "It's mind-boggling, very unfathomable, that all of a sudden this vote counts," he says. "I think it's very exciting that an individual vote of people living in Israel affects the American scene." And that's a notion that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate...