Word: imperfection
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...report anything?--and if we get it wrong, well, whoops!, stuff happens. In exchange, you get a new transparency: unfiltered access, not just to source material (like the Starr Report, the decision almost immediately went online) but to the journalistic process. Viewers Tuesday got to see the messy, imperfect metamorphosis through which conjecture coalesces into fact. It was spellbinding. It was educational. But it sure didn't restore anyone's absolute faith in TV. Consider the final insult. After all that, we didn't even get to see Judging...
...case. Even the majority conceded that among the tens of thousands of uncounted "undervotes" and "overvotes" in Florida, there may be valid votes that simply did not register on the machines. It would be hard to hold otherwise, since the machines' designer had testified that the machines are imperfect and that the only way to get a full count is to examine the undervotes by hand...
...imperfect vote-counting system has proved that Americans are just human. Any claims of U.S. superiority now sound hollow. PRAVIN SHAH Addis Ababa...
...bows to Bush on Wednesday can set both men off on the right foot. He can nod ruefully at the machinery of our election and praise the resiliency of our democracy (and the wisdom of its high court), making special mention of the American ability to embrace the imperfect. A blessing for both these guys. And how Bush receives it will be everything for his first 100 days. Admitting there were vexing problems with his victory - and promising to try vigorously to fix them for next time - is a good preamble to any talk about mending the tone...
...ideal (count every vote, impartially) had a head-on collision with the imperfect (the machines stink, the recount standards varied wildly, and there wasn't time anyway...