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...will prevail," Bush said. But if the current hand counts go on, "there will be no fair and accurate result." The implication is familiar: Florida already counted, twice, and Bush already won, twice. But time, politics and an activist court are fast putting those victories in the rear-view mirror. Where does that leave Bush...
That's just the beginning. When the new President sets about patching himself up and forging ahead, he will face a Congress that's a perfect mirror of the country, as exquisitely divided as the electorate that couldn't choose between Bush and Gore. Depending on who wins the last pending statewide race, in Washington, the Senate could be split right down the middle: 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats. If Bush wins, Dick Cheney would become the Senate's deciding vote. If Gore wins, Joe Lieberman would resign his Senate seat and be replaced by a Republican appointee, giving the G.O.P...
President Gore would face a mirror image of all the problems President Bush would have--including anger from his base if he cuts too many deals with moderates on the other side. And so the first bills Gore would send to Congress would be broad-consensus initiatives the public has been demanding. "He needs to show that this can work, so the idea is to put some points on the board early," says a Gore adviser. "Not get bogged down in big, ponderous packages." The patients' bill of rights is a prime candidate, since it failed last time...
RUNNER-UP: Five Hundred Self-Portraits (Phaidon; $29.95) Artists form their vision of the world by looking at themselves. These mirror images scan 4,000 years of art history from ancient Egypt to right now, from Masaccio to Ron Mueck...
BRITAIN the Mirror: "The simplest thing might be for President Clinton to be asked to stay on for another four years. But the way things are in the States at the moment, the letter asking him to do that would probably get lost in the post...