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Perhaps we should have known it was too good to be true. Last Friday, the Florida Supreme Court, by a narrow 4-3 margin, ruled in favor of an electoral contest suit filed by Vice President Al Gore '69. The ruling rightly set in motion a method of counting the over 43,000 ballots that voting machines had not counted, working to ensure every voter's voice was heard and the winner--whose identity was and is unknown--could rightfully receive Florida's electoral votes through certification tomorrow. Counting these undervotes. not just in Democratic counties, but across the state...
...past three years, scores of elementary schools in high-stakes testing states such as Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts have added Latin programs. Says Allen Griffith, a member of the Fairfax City school board: "If we're trying to improve English skills, teaching Latin is an awfully effective, proved method...
...perusing the Globe and Mail that the only problem with vote counting took place in Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia, where dozens of citizens had to recast their ballots after a man carried the ballot box out of a polling station and threw it into a waste-treatment lagoon--a method of slowing down the count that even Katherine Harris never thought...
...release, The W, finds the group at its most focused. It's an unusual place for it to be. Wu-Tang revels in its own unpredictability, its own inscrutability and its own ungainly nature. Wu-Tang is a conglomeration of rappers that includes RZA (the mastermind and main producer), Method Man (the star M.C.), Masta Killa, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard. A 10th rapper, Cappadonna, is regarded as an honorary member. While other groups rage and split and fall apart when members look to release solo work, Wu-Tang's boundaries are loose...
...that the court's decision is about justice and small-"d" democracy, and not about a court with an ideological axe to grind. They must also attempt to persuade the public that manual recounts clarify rather than muddy the vote, and that they are the tried-and-true method of protecting voter intent...