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...sloppy activist compromise that only served to waste three weeks of national time. The high court of which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounded so enamored Monday could have done the legally simpler thing on Nov. 17: Allow Katherine Harris her first certification and allow Gore his de novo contest on Nov. 18. And give Florida's 67 canvassing boards three weeks instead of three days...
...novo. Start fresh and count the votes. Sauls, the Gore lawyers say, shipped the ballots all the way to Tallahssee. He entered them in evidence. Then he took the word of two flimsy statisticians without ever looking at a warehouse fill of real evidence: the ballots themselves...
...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...
...President of the U.S. traveled through the snows of Moscow to the dacha & where an empire had been unmade. The sumptuous three-story house is called Novo Ugaryevo, and it was there in April 1991 that Mikhail Gorbachev negotiated the far-ranging reforms that four months later triggered the coup against him: the coup that brought on the Russian revolution that wiped away the Soviet Union and brought to power Bill Clinton's host, Boris Yeltsin. Last week, as trees and fencing glowed with lights marking the Russian new year, saxophone music floated out of Novo Ugaryevo...
...world order. Why is it so difficult? A precedent occurred not that long ago. One reason men like Roosevelt are such towering figures in hindsight is that they won a peace as well as a war. They were like demiurges, already prepared to re-create the world almost de novo, with initiatives for such global institutions as the United Nations, the Bretton Woods international financial regime and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Conferences and charters proliferated. In the depths of the war, thinkers were planning for the aftermath -- even if their ideas ran to such silly extremes...