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...increasingly crazy presidential battle heads further up the judicial chain, it appears inevitable that it will land in laps of the seven justices of the Florida Supreme Court - all appointed by Democratic governors (with an assist in one case from Jeb Bush...
...cause confusion, rob the victor of his spoil, and vitiate what remains democratic in the system." Over in Paris, there was concern that the U.S. media had taken everyone for suckers. "When CNN and the other networks made these errors on calling Florida, it set off a worldwide media chain reaction," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "There is concern here that everyone from the average Joe watching French TV to the French president - and even Gore and Bush themselves - were taken in by the U.S. media's false alarm...
...that's just a taste. All told, air time for campaign 2000 TV ads may have cost $1 billion. And as TV repeated the same presidential, single-issue, House, Senate and ballot-proposal ads hour after hour, it became nearly impossible to receive vital information on which fast-food chain has the Backstreet Boys promotion. Some pitch-drunk voters say this is a bad thing. I say this: Anyone who whines about being deluged with political ads is a crybaby who does not deserve to live in the greatest country on earth. Complaining about having a disproportionate voice in choosing...
...Jamil Hamad in the early hours of Friday morning in an isolated village in the West Bank. Hamas is one of two major militant Islamic groups operating in the Palestinian territories and Israel. The other group, Islamic Jihad, has taken responsibility for last week's Jerusalem car bombing. The chain-smoking Abu Ali, in his mid-30s, described Hamas' strategy...
...moments later, Sade slips into a small dressing room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively--like a baby's fist around an adult's finger--when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...