Word: phils
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...fell to Judge Lewis, the level-headed, mustachioed novelist-jurist who had disappointed the Gore team with his ruling four weeks ago backing Secretary of State Katherine Harris. On Friday night, when Lewis held a preliminary hearing to set a timetable for the recount, Bush lawyer Phil Beck staged a remarkable filibuster, a meandering, hourlong statement that seemed designed to delay the counting for just as long as Beck could string sentences together. Beck, the Bush team's lead trial lawyer, sensibly pushed Lewis to define the terms of the hand count--dimples, no; hanging chads, yes? But the judge...
...received a mixed welcome from Republican Senators, who remember her haughty attitude when she was in charge of trying to get health-care reform through Congress. Majority leader TRENT LOTT huffed that she'll be "one of 100, and we won't let her forget it." But G.O.P. Senator PHIL GRAMM tells TIME, "Anybody who can move into a state and get herself elected to the Senate, I'm impressed with...
...over the Adams House Lower Common Room today at 10pm. Otherwise, there's not much in the way of music news. Mike Rutherford says Genesis are now probably-slash-certainly "over." Ooh, big deal. Speaking of Genesis, or at least ex-Genesis members, can someone explain why rappers love Phil Collins? See Tupac's "Staring Thru My Rearview" and Eminem's "Stan...
...time is ripe for Cheney to take action: Last April, an Osprey crashed in Arizona and killed 19 Marines (the corps ultimately blamed the tragedy on its dead pilots). Two weeks ago, Phil Coyle, the Pentagon's top weapons-tester, said the Osprey is "more difficult and costly" to keep flying than the 30-year old helicopters it is designed to replace. In fact, it breaks down twice as often. More critically, it's not ready for military missions: It hasn't been approved for the vigorous maneuvers required in combat and lacks the required gun, and Marines...
...Bush's team offered two witnesses and planned to call 18 more. At times the proceedings dwelled on small but crucial matters, like whether old chads build up behind ballots and sometimes prevent a hole from being fully punched. Gore won a victory on that point, but Bush lawyer Phil Beck expertly cross-examined the Gore team's statistician, Yale professor Nicolas Hengartner. The professor had to admit that he had in fact never inspected a certain ballot that he claimed to have examined in his affidavit. The embarrassing admission didn't change Hengartner's overall point that there were...