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...Last week moderate Senate Democrats said they would consider the election finished if the high court rules against Gore. "Nobody has the stomach for this stretching beyond early December," says a senior aide to one Democratic Senator. Even Gore's campaign aides see an unfavorable ruling as a death blow. "They could lock it up for Bush," says a longtime adviser. "For Gore, they could let him live, but they can't lock...
...most famous wonk to blow a sax was, of course, Bill Clinton, the main subject of Greil Marcus's new essay collection Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives. Marcus, a rock-n-roll critic best known for lively volumes on Elvis, Bob Dylan and the Sex Pistols, pinpoints Clinton's appearance on Arsenio Hall as the turnaround of his 1992 presidential bid. Considered a sure loser against Bush and Perot, Clinton swaggered on stage with his tenor saxophone, wailed a few bars of "Heartbreak Hotel" and instantly won enough support to capture...
...report followed a severe blow delivered last year to vocational education at CRLS...
...Elsewhere Wednesday, the Bush legal team sustained a minor blow: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them, rejecting Bush's claims that Florida's recounts are unconstitutional. GOP lawyers had hoped a ruling in their favor would add momentum to a growing swell of Bush legal victories, and might even serve to counteract a Gore victory in the Florida Supreme Court...
...Monday afternoon, Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls dealt what appeared to be a crippling blow to Al Gore's attempts to claim the presidency. Phlegmatic as ever, Sauls said Gore "failed to carry the requisite burden of proof," summarily rejected Gore's case, and refused to order a recount. Furthermore, Sauls added, the Gore team had failed to establish "a reasonable probability that the results of the statewide election in the state of Florida would be different from the result which has been certified...