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Even as Gore scrambled for the high ground, Bush stuck to his I've-already-won strategy. Only one item was tossed out--the transition posturing that gave rise to that West Wing-style photo op with Bush and his Cabinet-in-waiting. The Florida battle is so all-consuming that his top people have had to put governance on the back burner; first they have to win. "Right now we're spending every minute managing this," says Hughes...
...Bush planned no victory party and Al Gore planned no concession; both merely packed the Tallahassee streets with protesters and waited. And when the 5 p.m. deadline had been history for two-and-a-half hours, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris walked into the camera-filled Florida State Cabinet Room and certified George W. Bush as the winner of Florida by 537 votes...
...Bush saw it, the only reason he was not happily vetting Cabinet members was because the Democrats wanted to change the rules for deciding elections, and the Florida Supreme Court decided to let them. When the Justices ruled Tuesday night that the hand counts could proceed, provided they were finished by 5 p.m. Sunday, the Bush camp for the first time felt some genuine dread. "I guess the rules aren't the rules anymore," said an ally bitterly. Didn't it mean anything that the votes had been counted and counted again; the state legislature had set a one-week...
...hard to believe after one of the bloodiest weeks of the current Israeli-Palestinian clashes, but both Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat appear to be moving to calm the situation. The decision by Israel's security cabinet Thursday to refrain from another high-profile military retaliation to Wednesday's car bomb that killed two people in northern Israel is a sign that Israel's prime minister has recognized the danger in trying to shoot his way out of a crisis...
...four political pundits at the tony Okura Hotel. Kato had sipped "three or four bottles of sake," according to two of his companions, when he was asked if he would support a reorganization of government ministries under Mori. "No," Kato said. "I won't let Mori reshuffle the cabinet." Kato, a member of Mori's Liberal Democratic Party, went on to say he would side with opposition parties in a no-confidence vote, and take dozens of LDP pols with...