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...lose with the high court, the Bushies believe they're doing very well indeed in the Florida courts. The end of last week brought strong evidence for that proposition. On Friday the Florida Supreme Court refused to order both immediate hand counts of disputed ballots and the revote in Palm Beach County sought by voters confused by the butterfly ballot...
Should the 14,000 disputed ballots in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties be counted and added to the statewide tally? Gore needs a victory here--and fast. This case and all appeals must be resolved by Dec. 12, or he loses. Bush is delaying by raising peripheral questions, calling scads of witnesses and asking for 1.1 million ballots to be counted. Can he run out the clock...
...Judge Clark finds for the Democrats, her decision could be appealed to the state supreme court, which hinted Friday about how it might respond. In an opinion denying a Palm Beach revote request, the court said a ballot must be "in substantial noncompliance" to justify an extreme remedy...
...ready enough, evidently. On Nov. 25, Downey was arrested at a luxury resort in Palm Springs, Calif., charged with possession of cocaine and speed and with violating the terms of his August parole. Against all logic and common sense, he had played with the same fire that had repeatedly burned him in the past--and this time his career could be put on hold indefinitely...
...first two pages of the huge catalog to "Made in California" tell you the essential plot line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least...