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Although there were some bitter jokes about counting all votes and letting everyone vote, all of the managers agreed on the need to reinvigorate the political process and expand the electorate...
...retire but not with a Democrat choosing her successor. She's expressed the same desire to friends. Another report, even more recent, had Rehnquist pledging to take a chair at the University of Arizona law school next fall. The guessing game comes in the wake of the court's bitter 5-to-4 decision shutting down the Florida recount and handing the election to Bush--a ruling that left the court wounded and at war with itself. O'Connor, who voted with the majority, is said to have been especially troubled by the public anger directed at the court. When...
These were wise words and I could have accepted them more readily had the speaker not been de Klerk. Somehow, his words seemed shallow and bitter to ingest...
...popularity (and demographic profitability) are not built on 49-year-olds. Earnhardt's old-school cred might have come in handy for a sport that can expect trouble from its traditionalists the more successful it becomes, and for a true NASCAR believer there was always Earnhardt to cut the bitter taste of pretty-boy superstar Jeff Gordon...
Comebacks make for great stories, but sometimes the stories can be too great. Michael Jordan retired after three championships, and then came back in 1996 for three more. Maybe I'm just a biased and bitter Knick fan who didn't like seeing the window of opportunity slam shut, but I can't help but believe that Jordan did the NBA a disservice in returning. The league had begun to promote its young talent in Jordan's absence, but then focused solely on His Airness again once he decided that a decade of torturing me wasn't enough...