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...deeper question goes to Putin's motive. After all, with both Gusinsky and his arch-rival oligarch Boris Berezovsky in de facto exile, the president would appear to have disposed of two of his most significant enemies in the battle for Russian public opinion. Then again, if the object is a full-blown political and corporate takeover, or takedown, of Gusinsky's media empire, then exile may not have been enough. The next move may belong to a Spanish court, but the real mystery is Putin's wider game plan. And as ever with the poker-faced president...
...they must also allow for an extension of Florida's elector certification deadline-an act which, unlike the current stay, if certainly within their power, as the Tuesday deadline is a federal law, not a part of the Constitution. If they do not, then any decision will be, de facto, the selection of Bush as the next president-even if, by winning more votes in Florida, the correct president should be Gore...
Americans have suffered their disenfranchisement largely because of a traditional, habitual respect for the U.S. Supreme Court. They have no such instinctive respect for the Florida Supreme Court, which until yesterday they had never heard of. Its attempt to throw a presidential election by inventing post facto election law is surely a bridge too far. It begins with the justices setting themselves up as defenders of the "will of the people" against what they contemptuously call "hypertechnical reliance upon statutory provisions," or what other people call "adherence...
...deny a victory to its belligerent Iraqi neighbor - Riyadh also has some demands of its own. The Saudi leadership is reportedly outraged by Israel's reaction to the latest Palestinian uprising, and wants to see the U.S. play a more evenhanded role in the region. Crown Prince Abdullah, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia since his half brother King Fahd's stroke, has warned, for example, that the kingdom would break ties with any country that moved its embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem...
...frenetic, even if after a few too many whooshing camera moves, you will think you're watching The Gaytrix. QAF is too funny and fresh to get maudlin, thanks especially to the surprisingly versatile Sparks, whose Michael, a romantic with an unrequited crush on Brian, is the de facto liaison to the straight world: "He's so accessible," says Sparks, "he almost forgets he's gay." Harold's preening-sexpot performance can be stiff (not just in that way) and is hampered by scripts that try too hard to psychologize Brian and make him "relatable." But half...