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Normally my family goes to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving (this would have been trip number 17!), but the pop culture maelstrom of South Florida was too hard to resist. In between lying on the beach or carousing around Coconut Grove, my older brother and I would go looking for election...
So it came as some strange comfort on Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court surprised just about every legal scholar on the planet and said it would hear the Bush petition that these ongoing recounts were unconstitutional. The search for wise elders with a good sense of direction had so...
The Alliance and Bloc Quebecois may be classified as regionalist parties. The Alliance is a new party; its full name is the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance. Its membership is drawn partially from what used to be the Reform Party--currently Canada's official opposition--and partially from disillusioned Conservatives. Like...
"Without question, this court must make it clear that the election of the president and vice president is not a matter of local pleasure," the petition said. "It is, at the least, a statewide matter of concern."
A federal judge yesterday rejected Gov. George W. Bush's petition to halt manual recounts of the presidential balloting in four predominately Democratic Florida counties.