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...office on Capitol Hill and ordered his aides not to interrupt him for anything short of war. "I don't care what's going on," he told them. "I don't want to be bothered." A bushelful of memos had piled up on his desk, the fruit of a frantic political week of Senate power struggles framed inside the titanic power struggle for the White House. Leahy figured the Florida Supreme Court would bring the hammer down on Al Gore's final appeal and didn't care to watch. So he glared when an aide came in just after...
Inside the chamber, the American elite assembled for the arguments that most legal scholars had predicted wouldn't come. It was quite a sight, as warring parties had to cram together in the 400-seat hall. (Court personnel said they hadn't seen Friday's frantic demand for seats since 1989, when a high-profile abortion case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, was argued.) Senator Edward Kennedy sat uncomfortably next to Barbara Olson, wife of Bush lawyer Theodore Olson and author of Hell to Pay, a vituperative book about Kennedy's new colleague Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gore adviser Warren Christopher...
...office on Capitol Hill and ordered his aides not to interrupt him for anything short of war. "I don't care what's going on," he told them. "I don't want to be bothered." A bushelful of memos had piled up on his desk, the fruit of a frantic political week of Senate power struggles framed inside the titanic power struggle for the White House. Leahy figured the Florida Supreme Court would bring the hammer down on Al Gore's final appeal and didn't care to watch. So he glared when an aide came in just after...
...season has its immutable rituals-looking for that perfect tree, basting that hormone-injected dinner bird, setting up lighted lawn decorations (in Springfield Fla. this week, one man put up a display of two reindeer getting it on, much to his neighbors' horror-but that's an exception), and frantic last-minute dashes to the mall for almost-forgotten gifts. Ah yes, Holiday Happiness is everywhere-everywhere, that is, except Hollywood, where the promise of even temporary stability makes everyone act even weirder than usual...
...balance. The wiser, more cautious adults sense Jen's avidity for rare and dangerous toys like the Green Destiny. They are also suspicious of her governess (Cheng Peipei), who bears a resemblance to the ruthless killer Jade Fox. Then one night the sword disappears. And everyone springs into frantic, purposeful motion...