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...split gave moderates hope that they alone would hold the key to the President's legislative success. At times last week, it seemed there were more moderate groups meeting on Capitol Hill--the Wednesday Group, two Centrist Coalitions, assorted convocations of New Democrats--than there are bridge clubs in Palm Beach. Now all that has to be put on hold while the politicians wait to hear from the judges. "Until this is settled, nobody is going to be talking about any specific agenda," says an aide to a moderate Republican Senator. "This trumps any bill." The healing will have...
...HEADBLADE A fashionably shaved head is either the ultimate in minimalist dandyism or the 21st century version of the comb-over. HeadBlade's power razor has a form as curvy and clean as Patrick Stewart's pate. Nestle it in your palm and "comb" yourself bald. It's shear elegance...
...VISORPHONE Clamp the VisorPhone on your Handspring Visor (a cheaper clone of the Palm), tap a number in your address book and--bang!--look who's talking. This will be remembered as the year the cell phone and the PDA finally married...
With the Ryder truck being auctioned off on eBay for $80,000 or more, good sense says the driver has to be worth at least half that much. But Enos, 38, is still putting in days as the voting-system manager in West Palm Beach. I don't really understand what he has to do with the voting-system mess down there, but it does seem like a good idea for Spillane to be scouting out other work...
...recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court is unconstitutional, the majority argued, because it addressed only "undervotes," (votes not counted by the machine) and not "overvotes" (those infamous double-punched Palm Beach ballots, among others), thus violating the Equal Protection clause guaranteeing the uniform treatment of all votes cast in an election. And let's not forget that the standards for recounting differed from county to county. Furthermore, Rehnquist et al. opined, any constitutional recount would require a drastic overhaul of existing standards - not to mention a time frame allowing for judicial review and legal challenges. Such "serious work" could...