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...Baker heads Bush legal team during contentious Florida recount (November...
...expressed the same desire to friends. Another report, even more recent, had Rehnquist pledging to take a chair at the University of Arizona law school next fall. The guessing game comes in the wake of the court's bitter 5-to-4 decision shutting down the Florida recount and handing the election to Bush--a ruling that left the court wounded and at war with itself. O'Connor, who voted with the majority, is said to have been especially troubled by the public anger directed at the court. When a friend praised the court's ending the election saga...
...This was heady stuff; the newspaper set up a stand-alone section of its web site and prepared for a frenzy of activity. Would the recount results fuel Democrats' conviction that the election was stolen by a partisan U.S. Supreme Court? Or would the new numbers establish unequivocally that George W. Bush won the presidency...
First, the bad news for Gore: In a review of 10,644 undervotes, the paper reported, the vice president gained only 49 votes (1,555 to Bush's 1,506). Those votes, combined with the recount numbers Gore requested from three other counties - Volusia, Palm Beach and Broward - and subtracted from Bush's 730-vote lead, would still have left Gore 140 votes behind Bush in the overall Florida count...
...warning victims or trying to shame potential clients. In Moldova, the U.S. embassy funded two half-hour programs about the trade to be broadcast on state television and in schools. In Kosovo, the iom printed 20,000 pamphlets-in English-to target the international community there. The pamphlets recount the true story of a young woman, Maria, who lived eight to a room and was forced to have sex with up to five men a night. "You pay for a night," it admonishes readers. "She pays with her life...