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...headline still says "Gore Loses in Supreme Court, Recount Hearing" and that's more grist for the concession mill. (It even sparked a brief "Bush rally" on Wall Street.) A "very gratified" James Baker came out at 3 p.m. to explain how the high court had reinforced the Bush camp's arguments against the extensions and hand counts, even if it had given the Florida Supremes another crack at addressing them. But as hard as Baker was working to convince reporters the Supremes had handed him a win, he wasn't about to call anew for Gore's surrender when...
...perfect setting of bright blue skies and state-of-the-art facilities. TV and radio are also chockablock with stinging parodies of the self-important International Olympic Committee and Australia's own representatives. Everything from lost bus drivers to drug-positive athletes are grist for the Aussie media...
...British and Hessian troops invaded New Jersey, forcing him and his family to flee.... By the spring of 1779, John Hart was dead." Paul M. Morrill in the San Diego Union-Tribune on July 4, 1985: "John Hart of New Jersey signed at 65. He owned several flour and grist mills, all of which were destroyed in the war. He died in poverty at 68." Roy Wetherington, July 2, 1995, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "The farm and livestock of another signer, John Hart of New Jersey, were destroyed. Hart and his wife hid in the woods for several months...
Luckily, however, many states have joined in the suit and could persevere despite a lax Administration. Furthermore, the decision will provide grist for class-action suits filed by individuals. There is, therefore, good reason to hope that Microsoft's abusive monopoly will eventually be restrained...
...form of lower premiums, some doctors worry the HMO's dedication to the bottom line could be dangerous for patients, who could inadvertently increase their dosages, resulting in sleep loss and nervousness - or worse. And, according to TIME medical editor Christine Gorman, United's plan could be more grist for the mill of anti-HMO rhetoric. "This takes the power to prescribe out of the doctors' hands and puts it in the bureaucrats' court, all in the name of cost-cutting," says Gorman. "This is exactly the sort of thing that gives HMOs a bad reputation in the first place...