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...Thursday night, Palm Beach County circuit-court judge Kathleen Kroll issued an injunction that barred the county from certifying the recount results until a hearing on Nov. 14. In this initial phase, Florida law gives lower-court judges considerable power to decide if a vote is valid and, if not, to rule on remedies. The initial thing to determine is whether the confusing Palm Beach ballot was illegal in the first place. Democrats contend that it violates a provision of state election law that requires each candidate's name to appear to the left of the corresponding punch hole. Republicans...
...addition, several of the losing decisions could have easily gone the other way. Against Brown, it can easily be said that Harvard dominated in every phase of the game except the score. And if a couple balls had taken more fortuitous hops against Penn State, Harvard might well have toppled the then-No. 6 Nittany Lions...
...irony is that those same groups appear to be turning globalization into a weapon of their own, using it to gain access to more deadly technology and to more closely coordinate their efforts. Says former National Security Council counterterrorism expert Daniel Benjamin: "We're still in the boost phase for this kind of fusion." The attack on the Cole may signal the beginning of the blowback...
America's '80s buyout phase mostly bypassed Europe. The main reason: there were fewer European public companies then. It took the IPO movement of the '90s to make going private possible. But what's happening now is no replay of '80s America, Wright insists. That era was marked by hostile bids and huge, massively leveraged deals often financed with high-risk, low-investment-grade junk bonds. Today's deals are rarely hostile, and debt levels are more manageable. Today's mantra is "buy and build." Once a company has been taken private, the idea is to build...
...parents who decide to tune out--or cut back--Brock's survey offers tips. Among them: stash the TV in a hard-to-reach spot; phase out cable, then the networks; post a list of favorite activities other than channel surfing. "If you can live through 20 minutes of whining," Brock advises, "your children will find something to do." Maybe they will find their favorite reality-based show is real life...