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...concessions facing mounting pressure from their own people to take a tougher stance. Nobody in the region is particularly bullish about the prospects of a peace deal concluded with a lame-duck U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister who, according to most estimates, is headed for an ignominious defeat when Israel goes to the polls a month from...
Gore and his top aides say they were delighted with Boies' advocacy. But after his nuclear defeat in Judge N. Sanders Sauls' trial court, and especially after the final Supreme Court ruling, Boies' critics became operatic. Top trial lawyers with no grudge against Boies agreed that he made missteps. At trial, they said, he presented the wrong witnesses. On appeal, he showed a faulty grasp of the jurisdictional issues, and he boxed himself in by arguing that Dec. 12 was a meaningful deadline. Throughout, he spent too much time talking to the cameras and not enough time preparing...
...anointed leader, George W. Bush, championing the anathematized cause of campaign-finance reform. McCain based his campaign on "straight talk." His forthright style earned him goodwill from the press and an intense following among independents and disaffected voters, who turned out in record numbers. Ultimately, conservatives secured his defeat, and McCain, pictured at his ranch in November (the scar on his face is from skin-cancer surgery), became a loyal soldier for Bush--to an extent. When he returns to Congress, he promises "blood on the floor" over campaign finance...
...been a rough few weeks for supporters of school vouchers. First came the Election Day defeat of ballot initiatives in California and Michigan that would have created statewide programs that return tax dollars to parents who send their kids to private schools. These measures fell by a ratio of more than 2 to 1, despite multimillion-dollar campaigns by wealthy voucher proponents. Then last week, in a verdict with nationwide consequences, a federal appeals court ruled that the voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio, violates the constitutional separation of church and state...
...Gore's concession speech was not as good as the reviews would have it. Quoting his father about how defeat shakes the soul was the right touch of poignancy. Saying he would be mending fences in Tennessee admitted how much it hurt to be rebuffed at home. Invoking the cliched "It's time for me to go" so elegiacally displayed the mordant, subtle humor of one who accepts that life is mad. Finally we glimpsed the Gore who, according to those who love him most, always existed...