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...Saturday Gore's contest of the election in Sauls' courtroom continued at a glacial pace, bogged down in statistics and chads, just as Bush's lawyers had hoped. Every delay brings them closer to Dec. 12, when the states must appoint electors to the Electoral College. Even if Sauls does rule in Gore's favor this week that some 14,000 ballots from heavily Democratic areas must be counted, the counters may not have enough time to get it done...
...Gore to win, he needs to survive a bewildering legal obstacle course--not just the U.S. Supreme Court but also the Florida Supremes, Judge N. Sanders Sauls' circuit courtroom, the Florida legislature and even the U.S. Congress. (Of course, there's a chance a judge will throw out all those absentee ballots in Seminole County, which would make the ride a whole lot easier.) If Gore crashes anywhere along the road--or simply moves too slowly--he loses the race. --By Andrew Goldstein...
JUDGE SAULS' COURTROOM...
Though it's clear that Kaufman researched Wilde, for we are continually provided with sources for the dialogues, diary entries and speeches, some of the evidence, especially in the courtroom, tends to drag. It is difficult to tell if Sir Edward Clark (Seth Fenton '01) purposly reads each piece of evidence with as little emotion or sense of sentence flow as possible so that Wilde's exchanges sound juvenile or if Clark is merely reading the evidence unintelligibly...
While most panel participants focused on police-based discrimination, Professor David Cole of Georgetown University said the discrimination extended to the courtroom...