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...postelection turmoil escalated, it became clear that it was the story of the year and more: whoever was the survivor would be not only the next President but a symbol of a historic showdown that would be remembered and cited a century hence. So by early last week, without knowing whether Al Gore or George Bush would win, we'd decided that the victor would be Person of the Year...
Israelis don't vote for their leaders so much as against their opponents. And that makes an Ehud Barak-Ariel Sharon showdown for prime minister a tight contest, because both men have high negative ratings for their record in Israeli leadership. And with the likelihood of a much smaller turnout than in a full parliamentary election, the race may be too close to call despite Sharon's substantial lead in the polls...
...recounts. And the experts were fixated on the fact that at oral argument last Thursday, Chief Justice Charles T. Wells asked whether his court even had a right to hear the case. The Florida justices, conventional wisdom held, were looking for a way to bow out gracefully from a showdown with the U.S. Supreme Court...
...showdown between the Florida and the U.S. Supreme courts is really no contest. Under federalism, the U.S. Supreme Court can overrule state courts where issues of federal law are involved. But the real drama lies in whether five Justices will actually decide to do that. Unlike the high court's first ruling in the case, which was carefully if precariously unanimous, the latest one broke down in just the ideological way everyone had hoped to avoid. The five conservatives--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas--voted to issue...
...that the Washington talks have been convened under pressure from the Americans and Israelis, and have suggested that Arafat is wary of a repeat of the Camp David scenario where U.S. and Israeli domestic political considerations rushed the process beyond its objective limits at that point, setting up a showdown over Jerusalem that erupted on the streets once negotiations broke down...