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...four in the "liberal" box - Stevens (who wrote the stinging dissent) Ginsburg, Souter and Breyer - felt just the opposite, that the only harm being done in this instance was to Al Gore if the counting was stopped. They also seemed to give deference to the Florida Supreme Court, something the majority didn't have much truck with. Breyer declared the stay a dangerous and self-fulfilling prophecy...
...content with surprising the country with their ruling alone, the Florida high court also stymied many prognosticators by forming unlikely camps of opinion: The judges ruling in favor of Gore were Anstead, Quince, Pariente and Lewis, while Justices Harding, Wells and Shaw dissented. Shaw's inclusion in Harding's dissent was most startling to those familiar with the Justices; he is considered one of the court's most liberal members...
...wise man also keeps his allies from embarrassing him. Florida Republicans are still revving up for that special session, set for Wednesday by the House, but Sunday night the state's Senate leader cried whoa. Is this merely a show of sagacious dissent, to derail charges of railroading, or is there real dissension in the ranks? Cheney has perfected the shrug on this issue, but he might consider a loud plea for the local folks to wait a week - the last thing Bush needs right now is another reason to look illegitimate. (Next-to-last: the emerging GOP fight...
When Nader hears this kind of thing, he starts rattling off such names as Rosa Parks and Thomas Jefferson. What's happened to dissent in this country? he wonders. The issue, he says, is that neither Bush nor Gore will run Washington. "The decisions in this town are made by the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, 22,000 corporate lobbyists and 9,000 PACs who have their grip on every department in government. Who do you think is the most powerful force on the auto-safety agency? It's the auto companies. Food and drug, aviation...
...Their work is characterized by intense political, social and economic engagement, by a running critique on the commodification of art objects and by the involvement of the audience. Whether in performance art, mail art, language art or manipulation of found objects, these artists saw their work as vehicles for dissent, stand-ins for forbidden speech and catalysts for thought. This is, in itself, another major problem with Global Conceptualism: the contradiction of a museum exhibition of works of art which were intended as protests against museums. Yoko Ono's "Painting in Three Stanzas," for instance, was meant...