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...Analysts predict that Gore can capture the necessary votes to win Florida only if the dimpled chads are permitted. But even if Gore does take the lead with the help of the dimpled chad, the uncertainty surrounding admissibility leads to a new maze of political and legal possibilities...
...hype surrounding the Harvard-Yale Game could have not have been more intense had it been a presidential election. Few dared to predict the outcome. Yale surged to a commanding first-half lead, and held the lead well into the fourth quarter. With but minutes to go in the game, Yale was confidently marching down the field, holding onto a seemingly insurmountable 16-point margin. To many observers, especially on the Yale side, it might have seemed the graceful thing for Harvard simply to concede victory to Yale. The game seemed all but lost...
...Bush team takes issue with the Florida Supreme Court's decision, which many predict they are likely to do, the case could wind up in Washington, before the Supreme Court. According to Craig Waters, communications director for the Florida Supreme Court, the fate of the case depends on the lawyers' strategies: Although technically the only course of appeal after the state Supreme Court is the United States Supreme Court, in this case it could be argued that federal issues are involved, and an appeal might be successfully pushed into a lower federal appeals court. At that point, of course...
Tribe declined to predict how the legal issues would eventually be resolved, but added that "the deadline for everyone is December," when the Electoral College will formally decide the winner of the election...
...revolutionize astronomy. "When we were planning for the Keck in the early days," recalls Caltech's Djorgovski, "we laid out some of the science we expected to do with it. And we were much too conservative: we missed most of the really important stuff we've actually found. I predict the same thing will happen with these enormous telescopes. We'll almost certainly find things we never could have imagined...