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...weeks, he was at the center, serving as a top Democratic operative in Broward County, working with lawyers there to oversee manual recounts...
After the Florida State Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, Nov. 21 that Secretary of State Katherine Harris had to include the results of manual recounts in her certification, Gore's ground operation was confident that they'd close the slim margin of victory that George W. Bush had obtained...
...most recent display of bipartisanship and honor, Bush's lawyers are attempting to force a recount of the entire Miami-Dade county if the Florida Supreme Court rules that Gore's request for a manual recount of 14,000 disputed ballots is justified. If Bush can counter that over 1 million votes need to be manually recounted, there will not be enough time to count the votes before the electors must vote on Dec. 12--Bush will win by default. Pretty clever Dubya, a great way to win an election indeed. What was that you said about being "a uniter...
...having never run one before--the marathon. Nicknamed "the Engine," Zatopek ran up to 100 miles a week, sometimes in place in the bathtub, or with his wife on his shoulders. He was dismissed from the military and reduced to manual labor after standing on anticommunist front lines during the 1968 Prague Spring. He broke 18 world records but once said of his unorthodox, arm-flailing, grimacing style, "I wasn't talented enough to run and smile at the same time...
More than ever, the only constant in modern life is change. By the time we get around to reading the manual, we know that the offer of an upgrade will already be in the mail. Our expectation that whatever we possess is doomed to obsolescence has become relentless. And yet invention still comes as a constant surprise...