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Once the sepsis of lawyers enters the bloodstream, then the body politic may abandon hope. Just as there is no mortal's life that can be said to be without sin, so hardly one vote in one precinct of America is beyond the challenge of legal ingenuity. Democrats don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Injection of Lawyers Will Harm the Nation | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

Things are so much easier in totalitarian systems. As Joseph Stalin once noted, it's not who votes that matters, but who counts the votes. In authoritarian societies, the government tells people how to vote and then they count the votes and then they win. It's so much neater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Cheers for Good Old, Sloppy Democracy | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

The Constitution has remedies for fraud and injustice, but not for incompetence and sloppiness. I'm afraid that stupidity is allowed under our democratic constitution. Yes, that butterfly ballot is awfully confusing - and I'll tell you why: It was created by a human being. But the Constitution does not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Cheers for Good Old, Sloppy Democracy | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

What the weather focus does do is reinforce the notion that the election is so close you can't dare change that channel - so close a butterfly flapping its wing in the Amazon jungle could throw Oregon to Bush! Which of course may actually be true this time, but besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Media Bias: Let Judge Mills Lane Decide! | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

The deep proof of our need to spill, and keep on spilling, lies in reflex, often in desperate circumstances. A number of years ago, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine in Paris, was felled by a stroke so destructive that the only part of his body that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Am Writing Blindly" | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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