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...placed his stylus on the chad marked for one of the presidential candidates before changing his mind and boycotting the choice altogether. "And you wouldn't want that mark to be counted for a man you decided not to vote for, would you?" demanded Bush lead attorney Phil Beck, making the prospect sound as horrific as possible. No, the witness agreed, he would...
...soon as the trial recommenced, Bush attorney Phil Beck (who treated Gore statistician Nicolas Hengartner with such disdain Saturday) called his own, heavily accented statistician to the stand. Dr. Laurentius Marais, who spoke with an unidentifiable lilt, was straightforward and extremely convincing as he tried to tear down the basis of the Gore team's statistical argument. The vice president's lawyers, said Beck, are showing us numbers indicating that if all votes were counted, Gore would certainly win. Is their assumption correct...
...testimony of the vice president's first witness, political scientist Kimball Brace, was breathtakingly inept: The bedraggled wonk spent most of his time on the stand fumbling with 40-year-old voting machines and inadvertently shaking handfuls of chads onto Judge Sauls' desk. By the time Bush attorney Phil Beck had finished his cross examination, Brace had failed to support his theory that there might be structural problems or inconsistencies with the left-hand side of the Votomatic voting machine. He'd also all but admitted there was no reason to doubt the canvassing boards' ability to count their...
...Bush team pounced. They relentlessly questioned the expertise of the expert witness, in which Brace wound up looking like a sort of hobbyist, able to voice his opinions only as "personal observations" based on his long experience in the field. (Or, as Bush lawyer Phil Beck put it disdainfully, "his years of travels.") And then they let him talk...
...once a month on either side of the street at about 10 a.m.," writes Mary E. Bridges '01, a Quad car owner, in an e-mail message. "If you forget to move your car, it will be gone by about 9:30. You have to pay a visit to Phil of Phil's Towing and pay about $65 to get it back...