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...Gore still won plenty by not losing. The Florida Supreme Court will eagerly take up its second chance to pass muster with its betters, and the Gore campaign has no concrete reason to give up its current, much more critical fight before that court for new hand counts in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Possibly they'll have to add Broward County to that list. Boies' sweeping de novo request covers more than enough votes for Gore...
...That's pretty much what the Gore team, led by the rumpled and disarmingly lucid superlawyer David Boies, was asking for. Boies argued that the only discretion Secretary of State Katherine Harris really needs is to make sure her office can muster a final answer in time for Dec. 12. And since her duties are merely a "ministerial act" - a contention the Bush team later appeared to confirm - certainly the hand counts could go on until, say, December 9 or so without serious damage to the rights of the Florida electorate...
...Europe, of course, is way ahead of the U.S. in terms of cutting its reliance on fossil fuels, but even then it remains doubtful whether many EU countries will achieve their own targets. So even if the Europeans fail to secure U.S. agreement on cuts, it?s unlikely to muster the will or the means to impose any penalties. In other words, saving the planet may just have to wait...
...sexy weekend getaway, especially if one is alone, far from the comforts of home and all of one's stuff. Being surrounded by my stuff is very important to me, especially on Saturday morning, when a good amount of it is strewn about the house awaiting the weekly muster, and missing this opportunity to prepare my things for redeployment presents an unwelcome wrinkle in my routine. But here I am, preparing to spend the weekend in this resolutely characterless establishment, and wondering what the heck I'm doing here...
Network anchors responsible for communicating the news were often left unable to muster commentary. This was a scenario they had not planned for, 40 years after John F. Kennedy '40 famously squeaked out a victory over Richard M. Nixon by winning Illinois by a margin of less than 9000 votes...