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...future president remained uncertain, with Florida’s decisive 25 electoral votes up in the air. Florida’s secretary of state had declared George W. Bush the winner by a 537-vote margin, but the state’s highest court ordered a manual recount...
...recount were not completed by inauguration day on January 20, 2001, and if Congress didn’t resolve the question, who would have occupied the White House after Bill Clinton’s term expired...
...problem is that just as Japanese soldiers once dehumanized Chinese, Beijing's propaganda often paints Japanese as pure monsters. Grade school textbooks recount the callous brutality of Japanese soldiers in graphic detail, and credit the Communist Party with defeating Japan. (Another reason for Japan's surrender, it says, was the atomic bombs dropped by the U.S.) More moderate voices are silenced. A 2000 film by one of China's leading directors, Jiang Wen, remains banned because it depicted friendliness between a captured Japanese soldier and Chinese villagers. Although the film showed plenty of brutality, censors ruled that "Devils...
...given a sufficient explanation, he stops and jabs absently at his plate. “There’s just too much shit out there,” he concludes, waving a forkful of mashed potatoes. Though Nichols explains physics with aplomb, it is impossible for him to recount all the escapades of his past three years. From constructing a four-story beer funnel in Pennypacker freshman year to streaking down Mt. Auburn St. brandishing toilet plungers, fun follows Nichols like beer chases mashed potatoes. But perhaps his most cherished memory is of gathering with friends on the Weeks footbridge...
...Florida. For all his genuine accomplishments in such areas as school accountability, economic diversification and management of the state's explosive growth over his seven years in office, Bush has too often been tripped up by partisan plays. There was his much criticized role in the 2000 election recount, but he also looked desperate, fighting to keep Terri Schiavo alive earlier this year and suddenly supporting a G.O.P. congressional plan to allow oil drilling 125 miles off the coast of Florida. Whether his latest proposal, to move Florida's Medicaid patients into managed-care plans, turns...