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...both teams, the extreme, conflicting emotions of Friday and Saturday were simply the distilled essence of all they had been feeling since the election. As each day brought one or more court rulings, the loser absorbed the blow and moved on--and the winner didn't bother celebrating. There wasn't time. The lawyers were due in court, and the generals were due on television; they were late for strategy sessions or conference calls with their candidate; they were keeping an eye on the polls and the catcalling protesters, the bickering recount monitors, the flawed, human, sometimes heroic county election...
...weeks ago, and poll watchers in the small Georgia town of Dallas had a problem. The weather was humid and rainy. Now their vote-counting machine was rejecting thousands of punch-card ballots because the cardboard had warped in the damp night air. What to do? Break out the blow-dryers! "As weird as it sounds, it's standard procedure," says Fran Watson, election superintendent for Paulding County, where Dallas is located. "We blow a hair dryer over them, and then they'll go through...
...Gore's effort to overturn the result of the presidential election in Florida was dealt a severe blow on Monday afternoon when Leon County Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls refused to order the hand recounts sued for by the vice president. First, said Judge Sauls, Gore's lawyers did not prove that election would have changed if the recount took place. He also ruled that there was no evidence to show abuse of discretion by the canvassing boards in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade or Nassau counties; that there is no evidence of fraud or improper influence in the counting process...
...element in Kosovar Albanian politics was, of course, dealt a serious blow in local elections throughout the territory three weeks ago, which saw a landslide victory for the party of moderate leader Ibrahim Rugova. That suggests that the majority of the ethnic-Albanian community are willing to pursue their desire for independence via negotiation with the new regime in Belgrade. But for those KLA hard men who remain determined to use any means necessary to win independence for Kosovo and unite it with Albania, NATO troops may become an obstacle in their path. And that could make the peacekeeping mission...
Delivered a stunning blow, the Crimson quickly recovered and dented the scoreboard at 19:04. Botterill, also absent from the first four games due to commitments with Team Canada, recorded her first goal of the season off assists from Suurkask and Shewchuk with a cannon shot from the top of the left circle...