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...before anyone gets too excited over at the Gore camp, there are a few things to know about the current bench on the Florida state Supreme Court. First off, Florida doesn't follow a blanket "appointment" routine; when a seat is empty, a nonpartisan judicial nominating committee consisting of interested citizens, gubernatorial appointees and attorneys presents three judges' names to the governor, who chooses one. In other words, a governor's appointments are more or less at the mercy of that independent committee. And while its Democratic makeup and what its reputation for what conservatives call "judicial activism" may make...
...started 23 years ago. A young writer, Catherine Ryan Hyde, was driving home late one night in a disreputable section of Los Angeles when her aging Datsun stalled and started spewing smoke. She leaped out, away from danger, only to see two guys running at her with a blanket. Visions of muggings danced in her head. As she now recalls, "It did not occur to me that this was the good news...
...turns out, was on fire, burning along the throttle line. It could have exploded and killed her. Instead, some Good Samaritan called the fire department, the two guys with the blanket put out the blaze, and the Datsun was saved to drive another day. It took Hyde a while to understand that she too had been saved. "I finally realized these two guys could have died," she says. "I could have died. I turned around to thank them--and they weren't there. For the next few months, I walked around with this huge sense of regret. But without realizing...
...thick, befuddling fog settled over the presidential campaign in Boston--a blanket of contradictory facts and assertions that hasn't lifted yet. But two basic images loom through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does...
...hand, there was Bush looking small and scared, lost in his own constructions and unable to fill the allotted time, wrapped in his learned lines like a soft blanket. Some of what he said made little sense; some was flatly wrong, like charging that Gore had "outspent him" in this election. And yet some viewers found themselves rooting for him to hang in there. The other guy was better prepared and better spoken but profoundly annoying as well, starting with the orange finger paint over his Florida tan, a mixture that made him look as if he should be skinned...