Word: daylighting
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...daylight in upon magic, as Bagehot said of the monarchy. The post-election has scrambled the dynamic. A ritual transfer of power should go this way: We fight through a messy, noisy campaign, we line up in an orderly fashion to choose one candidate or the other, and then we reconcile ourselves to the choice and feel relief that we can forget about it. Now there is no relief. The mess that should have ended has followed us in to Thanksgiving dinner, and may be threatening Christmas...
...modus operandi of the attacks have varied--daylight, early evening, nighttime--as have the descriptions of the suspects--white, black, single, pack, old, young. Some crimes have been committed on foot, others on bicycle and even others in vehicles...
...sooner had Gore won the right to a recount than the Republican counteroffensive began - even though many states, including Texas, consider hand counts to be reliable. The judges who endorsed the recounts were denounced as biased; the exhausted counters were accused of attempting an in-broad-daylight theft of the presidency - even though Palm Beach County turned up far fewer extra Gore votes than anyone expected because of their stricter rules about counting dimpled ballots. Democrats were also stunned by Nassau County, a GOP stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than...
...phone woke me up at 4 a.m. on Sunday morning in my Spokane hotel room. I thought I should be grateful that daylight savings' time had ended a few hours earlier, but I was in no condition to do any math...
...Sunday, wait at least an hour after rising before going out into daylight. Later, take in half an hour of late-afternoon light. Dr. Alfred Lewy, vice chairman of psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University, who devised the regimen, says that by Tuesday you should be sleeping and waking on time--and feeling fine...