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...expressed in the vote of the president," Tribe said on the New York Times web site yesterday. "That is done in a different way in different states, but one way is to recount manually when it is terribly close and there is a reason to believe the machines screw...
...other clear votes. In a land of no-fault auto insurance and no-fault divorce, where the woman who spills coffee on herself is awarded three million dollars and the drunken student who electrocutes himself on a Dinkey rail is similarly remunerated, do we really need no-fault ballot screw...
...line - worth watching the development of what became the mindset behind Watergate. For it is exactly the same attitude that I notice in the back rooms of Al Gore's mind - the mentality that in this game you have to be tough and ruthless, and win at any cost. Screw them before they screw you. Disillusioned idealism becomes a gangster...
...primitives and polluters of the screw-'em-all right start drilling for oil in Yellowstone or mass-producing electric chairs...
...help noticing this year that CEO Richard McGinn had morphed from an outgoing, hands-on boss who ate lunch in the cafeteria to a withdrawn figure bunkered in his office. Perhaps retreat was in order. After three otherwise successful years at the helm, McGinn had committed a series of screw-ups. Among them: missing out on optical-equipment investments that Lucent's competitors later cleaned up on and avoiding layoffs in spite of declining sales. Two weeks ago, he delivered really bad news: the current quarter's revenue would be 7% lower than last year's. It would...