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...Then, a counteroffer, a kind of sweetener, in case Bush is reluctant: Manually recount all 67 Florida counties, which "we believe... can be completed within seven days of the time it starts." He'll abide by that result too. Brilliant - two reasonable-sounding solutions to a mess Americans are wearying of, and both of them lawyer-free...
...favor the Bush camp may, in itself, be encouraging for those with an eye on the calendar. "We see an end to this in a matter of days, not weeks," said Christopher (after calling Baker's earlier offer "sleeves from his vest"). And if the last fight in this mess is whether or not Harris will accept late returns up to the Friday-midnight deadline for overseas ballots, well, then Baker's offer has already covered that possibility...
Like dej vu, the Crimson didn't even wait one play to mess up the next time. Palazzo took the handoff, went a few yards and then fumbled. Penn recovered in Harvard territory, but moved backwards and was forced to punt after a three...
Underscoring that point, one unusual hedgie, Jeff Vinik, has racked up stellar gains by taking an Everyman's approach to investing. Vinik, the onetime manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund, doesn't touch derivatives, futures or options, generally won't mess with commodities or bonds, and doesn't make macro currency bets. Such high-octane strategies are the purview of many hedge funds, and the reason some of those funds have made small fortunes--out of very large ones...
...whole mess has forced the candidates to behave slightly out of character. Gore, who turns hello into a treatise and who squeezed in one last town meeting at his voting place in Carthage before his home state rejected him, gave a very brief press conference cautioning his supporters that they would have to await the electoral vote despite his apparent win of the popular vote. He urged patience. He jogged and played his usual touch football with Tipper and the kids to the predictable taunts that he was acting Kennedyesque. But that's as presidential...