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...inclusion of the dimpled ballots as a gross misinterpretation of their own legislation. They ignore the dimpled chad-enhanced vote (remember, the Florida Supreme Court as much as handed them the right to do just that) and appoint their own slate of (Republican) electors. The legislature could also cave to the pressure of a deadlock and appoint two slates of electors, one Democrat and one Republican, and leave it up to Congress to make the decision as to which slate will represent Florida in the electoral college vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warning: It May Not End by Monday | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...Dissapointed in the human race, Timon invites all his friends to one last feast. At the feast he blames them for their ingratitude, after which he leaves Athens, cursing the city and everyone in it. Timon finds a cave in the woods and is determined to live on roots, but all he finds upon digging is gold...

Author: By Irina Serbanescu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: William Shakespeare's Other Tragedy | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...most powerful nation in the world is huddled in a cave, still deciding which face to present to its people. Wondering - is its citizenry really so perfectly, achingly riven? Or were the candidates themselves too much mirror images, each beloved only by members of his own tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crisis? What Crisis? The Republic Rolls On | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...Light Prince and the Dark Prince. There they were again, under the studio lights of the famous first debate - graceful Jack, loverboy and martyr; and eye-flicking Tricky, unshaven paranoid with sweat on his upper lip. The scene has persisted in the mind like a cave drawing, a cartoon from prehistory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Race Like 1960, Only a Lot More Stupid | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

...talks about these things, in part, because we assume that pornography has always been with us--from the cave paintings of Lascaux through the priapic statues of Greece and Rome and the fevered scribblings of the Marquis de Sade. But what we are witnessing, in the age of the VCR and the Internet, in nothing less than a revolution in smut. Pornography 30 years ago was a $10 million industry, a seamy demi-monde of adult theaters and run-down bookstores. For most people, porn meant Playboy, pin-up girls and maybe a deck of dirty playing cards for stag...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Pornographic Revolution | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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