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...Reading the minds of the nine Supreme Court Justices is always a tricky business, even if you get to hear their voices. But first impressions from the Court's 90 minutes say this thing - guess what? - is gonna be close. And as long as the Justices stick to the narrow issue of the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, close is all Gore will need...
Despite Vermont's two disappointing non-conference losses, the Cats still possess a narrow one-point lead over the Crimson...
...irrelevance. We will miss him because in an age of small men, when lackluster eldest sons duel for the presidency and petty time-servers scrabble for scraps in Congress, Bill Clinton was huge, a towering figure across our political landscape. Like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus," and his defeated enemies could only join voice with Cassius in saying that "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings...
...results in the state courts, and the Bush camp's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court does not traditionally like to muck around in state matters, much less presidential elections. But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline? Did it violate a federal law that requires that electors be selected according to rules set before the voting takes place? And most interesting, the Justices...
This year's result, by contrast, is a mess because Presidents and democratic principles count for more. If his narrow lead holds up in Florida, George W. Bush will have such a thin majority in the Electoral College that Gore's nationwide popular-vote lead of more than 200,000 will seem the more decisive verdict. The dubious integrity of Florida's ballot tabulations will only add to the aura of illegitimacy...