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...sense to lay off on the strings and backup singers when he recorded Melba and George. Just a strummed guitar, bass, piano (with ace session man Pig Robbins at the ivories), fiddle, dobro and a tasty pedal steel (played by the incomparable Buddy Emmons). I don't even detect a drum beat on this track. In part, this was an attempt to cash in on the early-'60s craze for all types of folk music; no matter, the results are glorious...
...honor the true will of the people... There is a simple reason that Florida law and the law in many other states calls for a careful check by real people of the machine results in elections like this one. The reason? Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...
...Gore began with the usual boilerplate about how this was a test of democracy, and followed with a classic Gore-as-schoolteacher explanation of why machines sometimes make mistakes. ("Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...") He insisted that those mistakes can be caught in manual recounts, recounts that are "accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters...
...Justices go onto the bench as Democrats or Republicans. Of course some are more liberal than others, and some are more conservative," says Professor Terrence Anderson of the University of Miami law school. "But on an issue like [the Florida election] I would be very surprised if you could detect a bias." Jon Mills, interim dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, agrees. "This is not a partisan court," he insists...
...Justices go onto the bench as Democrats or Republicans. Of course some are more liberal than others, and some are more conservative," says Professor Terrence Anderson of the University of Miami law school. "But on an issue like [the Florida election] I would be very surprised if you could detect a bias." Jon Mills, interim dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, agrees. "This is not a partisan court," he insists. GOP leaders across the country can only hope he's right...