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...that the race was too close to call, that we were in a statistical dead heat and the outcome would have to await, at the very least, an automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate in an instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting for a thorough recount...
...strange moment on "Meet the Press": Off-camera in the studio, a lightbulb apparently exploded -a loud, sharp noise. Jesse Jackson thought it was a gunshot. For an instant he looked wildly to his right, eyes questioning...
...triumph of old media over semi-old media. When the decision in Bush v. Gore II came down from the Supreme Court - literally, it was run down the steps by panting lackeys to the news networks' stand-up reporters - we learned the limitations of instant information: The information's only instant if you understand what it means...
...lots of options! It "effectively ends things." And it's highly ambiguous! MSNBC's Brian Williams noted that he'd been reading the decision himself, brandishing a pair of glasses -who wants to bet they're not prescription? - to prove it. (Around midnight, Williams chided a wire service for "instant analysis" that had said the court had sent the case back to Florida - which not only was true, but was more or less the same "instant analysis" every news network came up with themselves...
Retirees searching for an instant circle of friends need look no farther than the northern shore of Mexico's Lake Chapala, where tens of thousands of American and Canadian retirees form what is probably the largest English-language expatriate community in the world. Mary Alice Sargent, who lives with her husband Erick in the popular lakeside village Ajijic, appreciates that the community will rally around anyone in need...