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There were deep divisions as well in the Florida Supreme Court's own ranks. It is Jurisprudence 101 that when a court delivers a bombshell decision, the judges struggle to be unanimous. But the Florida court split 4-3, and the rift was a bitter one. Attached to the court's ruling was a dissent from the Chief Justice warning that the majority risked sending the nation into "an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis"--a powerful built-in sound bite for critics waiting to tear the majority decision apart...
...becoming a parent got Dean thinking about family, and as Keith says, Dean was never judgmental or bitter about what had happened in childhood. Now the brothers talk regularly. They visit each other every few months and have realized they have the same sense of humor, the same taste for adventure, and they notice the same things--someone's weird shoes on the subway or a cute woman...
...stand in total contrast to the tinkling notes that opened Learning How To Smile. While that first volume was a sweet and eclectic (and perhaps corny) manifestation of Art Alexakis' nostalgia, its successor rips those dreamy sentiments to pieces without even bothering to pause for breath. From its bitter opening to its bittersweet conclusion, the distorted fuzz-guitars scarcely let up, striking and churning in sullen anger, often in direct competition with Alexakis' voice...
...course, the outburst may just be the product of too many late nights, frayed nerves and a bitter loss. Anyway, Gore will get his chance to make amends next Tuesday night, when the Gores will host a party for the campaign staff...
...Maharushi will have none of it, and when two callers ask him to let up on the partisanship, at least for one day, and to think nice thoughts about what unites Americans, even after such a bitter ordeal, El Rushbo rips them a new one. The liberals, he says, are more dangerous and partisan now than ever; their way forward as a party now is to make W. fail, and the only way to deal with them is, as always, with a whip and a chair and a revolver...