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...cartel's plot to foist $50 toasters built with 10[cent] engineering on a groggy breakfast-time America. The prospect of a toaster that quickly pops up perfect golden-brown slices every time is to be dreaded. Will the toaster swallow the slice, then hold it in its stubborn grip until it's a hunk of smoking charcoal? How many times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE, and the "toast" that emerges five long minutes later is pale yellow. Exactly...
...former Coca-Cola executive will be sworn in as president Friday, after improbably breaking the seven-decade grip on power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in last summer's elections. Indeed, today's inauguration marks the first peaceful transfer of power from one party to another in 179 years. And nothing Fox learned at Coke or at business school will have prepared him for the challenge of tearing down a corrupt federal bureaucracy comprising 1.6 million people, which has entrenched the interests of a tiny economic elite for the past 70 years...
...lady certainly had a firm grip on her discretion. The Florida Supreme Court had given her a nice out - if a timid but honest canvassing board like Palm Beach's (we know they're honest because Gore is suing them in the morning) wasn't going to finish on time, she could give them 16 more hours if the Secretary of State's office was closed on Sunday...
...office of the 43rd President is being diminished. Even before the Gore campaign threatened to settle this election in court and the Bush team went after an injunction against hand-counting votes, it was obvious that the winner would face profound questions of illegitimacy and have a weak grip on presidential power--which is, after all, merely on loan from the voters...
...years, the rest of America has been entertained from a safe distance by Florida's headlines, but our endemic weirdness can no longer be regarded as amusing local color. The very fate of the American presidency now rests in its slimy, surreal grip. As a native Floridian, I advise you to brace yourselves. Given our recent history, more bizarre twists are to be expected...