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...Luis Buñuel is currently the subject of a comprehensive two-month retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art in honor of the centennial of his birth. "Don Luis" was actually born in February of 1900, but the delay between the actual event and its celebration makes perfect sense, as there are few filmmakers who are as appropriate as this renegade stylist to lead moviegoers into the 21st century...
...base says, and the base says Gore won. (Bob Kerrey's strident appearances in Florida for Gore's cause are widely credited to his own presidential ambitions in 2004 should Gore come up short.) And because the Republicans, from the orchestrated Miami-Dade "mob" to Gephardt nemesis Tom DeLay, have really been pissing them...
...Richard reminded reporters that this contest could have been started on Nov. 18 if Democrats had allowed Katherine Harris' original certification to proceed on schedule, but that Gore had made a "strategic decision" to delay it. (No myth there.) Richard promised the Bush team would work as fast as possible, but with all the trappings of a real trial - witnesses, discovery, the whole nine yards - they weren't about to surrender their rights to due process with the presidency on the line...
...though she needn't have bothered - the Bush lawyers in question had already prepared us for their rejection Tuesday morning. Barry Richard, Bush's version of David Boies, explained that Gore was dragging them into this contest at a very late date, having already gotten the Florida Supremes to delay certification by 11 days. And they certainly weren't going to wait around for a hand count in Miami-Dade that has already missed two deadlines, and wasn't necessary in the first place...
...Barak beat in 1999 to take back the government for the party of the right. Indeed, the prospect of being eclipsed by Netanyahu may have been weighing heavily on Sharon's mind Wednesday when revived the possibility of joining Barak in a national unity government, which might delay the poll - but it's not clear whether he was speaking for himself or for his party, or whether Barak would seriously entertain the offer at this point...