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...prosecuted. Pinochet is 85, and they are legally bound to check whether he's insane, and whether he can respond to questions. It's a little confusing, because there are so many different cases against Pinochet, and it's not clear whether this issue of medical checks will delay things...
...DELAY With D-day getting ever closer, he may yet get to be kingmaker. Bipartisanship is so last week...
...Saturday morning, with the votes being counted by order of the state supreme court, Bush's directive about softening the rhetoric had been rendered inoperative. Tom DeLay, the resident House G.O.P. firebrand, had vowed the night before that "this judicial aggression will not stand." His operatives were in Florida, officially to observe the recount process, and House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt warned them not to "disrupt this count." But there were plenty of other disruptions...
...disappointed the Gore team with his ruling four weeks ago backing Secretary of State Katherine Harris. On Friday night, when Lewis held a preliminary hearing to set a timetable for the recount, Bush lawyer Phil Beck staged a remarkable filibuster, a meandering, hourlong statement that seemed designed to delay the counting for just as long as Beck could string sentences together. Beck, the Bush team's lead trial lawyer, sensibly pushed Lewis to define the terms of the hand count--dimples, no; hanging chads, yes? But the judge declined, leaving the issue to the discretion of the local counters...
...wake of Dick Cheney's most recent heart attack, everybody (this columnist included) was quick to praise both Cheney and his doctors--him for checking into the hospital without delay; them for taking aggressive action once he arrived. Almost lost in the congratulatory spin, however, was the fact that the would-be Vice President is still a sick...