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...expected that members on the commission might privately support certain candidates. Recognizing that composition is crucial to function, the council has wisely made the commission as "bipartisan" as possible. Both critics and supporters of the council's current leadership will oversee the election process. Although the two groups were on different sides during last year's "battle over buttons," they share a common desire to restore integrity and honesty to our student government...
...with the instruction, "Hold the whiskey, and make it decaf." His very presence undercuts former Secretary of State James Baker's dire warnings that if we persist in this crazy "unconstitutional" recount, markets will collapse, world leaders will wobble and general mischief will abound. In Baker's view, the bipartisan counters are secret croupiers itching to stack the deck. There are more surveillance cameras than in a Las Vegas casino and more on-site baby sitters than in your average day-care center, but somehow these volunteers are going to cook the books...
...Bush didn't get many performance points. The speech's best lines were deflated by choppy pacing, and it seemed written on his face that he needed a larger-print Teleprompter. But the message was forward-looking and above all conciliatory, outlining bipartisan ground on education, health care and Social Security. Bush's job was to whet the public appetite for the next administration - his - and politely offer Gore a clear road out of town...
...recount of about one sixth of the ballots had found 156 new votes for Gore, and if the county would just finish the job, Gore believed, it could provide him the margin he needed. Gore planned to contest the county's decision and told people he would accept a bipartisan "master" to oversee a recount; but that would involve days and days of counting and a new deadline for a final tally. "The tragedy is we have truth on our side," said a top Gore adviser, "but time...
Furthering its credibility as a viable piece of legislation is the fact that this bill has bipartisan support. It brought together some strange bedfellows in the liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D- Mass) and the conservative former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell, director of the community-centered service organization America's Promise...