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...mandate claimed by either party. Congressional observers predict Democrats will return to this logic after the 20th, but for the moment, they're just hoping to use their fleeting power to articulate the concerns (over education and tax reform, among other issues) they fear could be swept under the rug in two short weeks...
...quote the suddenly wise minority that had tried to save his candidate from the hand counts Friday, and tossed in some "changing the rules in the middle of the game" shots at the ruling Florida four. But Baker wouldn't go any further - he'd had had the rug pulled out from under him too many times over the past 32 days to ascribe any intent to the Court's action. He looked forward to the hearing, and assured reporters George W. Bush's lawyers wouldn't be too tired to show up. For now, waiting until Monday was victory...
...work ever since the first prehistoric flint pebble was knapped into a butchering tool. Until about 500 years ago, however, innovation in a world moving at the speed of agriculture came infrequently, giving time for accommodation and a complacent sense of establishment. Then Columbus rediscovered America, and suddenly the rug was pulled out from under every form of Western authority. America had figured neither in the Bible nor in Aristotle, so what was it doing there? Then, within a few decades, returning with explorers from east and west came a flood of new plant and animal species, all of them...
...There are other, less happy, outcomes on the horizon as well. Most immediately, the possibility that the high court refuses to pass a sweeping judgment on Gore's ongoing contest in Florida. This would effectively pull the rug out from underneath the Republican argument, and could set them up for disappointment down the road...
...issue of character, although not always explicit, has hung gloomily over this election since the last days of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. At that time, some held that private sins, once admitted, could be forgiven and swept under the rug as "youthful indiscretions" irrelevant to one's presidential functions--that in the case of Clinton, the extramarital could be considered merely extracurricular. Others, many of whom now find themselves uncomfortably defending Texas Gov. George W. Bush, demanded that the president excel all his countrymen in virtue, a requirement that Jimmy Carter might pass but that John...