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...unfaithful. Throughout U.S. history, only nine electors out of some 18,000 have violated their pledges. It's going to be hard to find one who's going to break his or hers. Frank Straka, a Bush-Cheney elector from Arizona, tells TIME, for example, that he won't switch even if Gore wins the popular vote nationally. "It's like the playoffs," he says. "One team may score more runs, but if they don't win the four games, they lose...
...What if no candidate gets 26? A: It goes into more balloting, and horse-trading for votes. Some members may be pressed to switch to the way their states, their districts or the national majority voted. Some may be swayed by the prospect of an ambassadorship or a big Cabinet job. The delegations in the new House, however, are likely to be dominated by the GOP, thus favoring Bush...
...Bidya, only a few miles from Tel Aviv's suburbs, to spend $50 million a year on furniture, clothes and auto parts. Then came the new intifadeh. Four weeks ago, an Israeli was murdered there as he waited for his tires to be changed. And Mohammed Helo flicked the switch...
...During their first meeting the Great Leader invited Albright to a "gymanistics event" downtown. As she and Kim entered the 150,000-seat May Day stadium, a sellout crowd of blue-suited Korean Workers' Party members let out a sonorous, sustained roar as if at the flip of a switch. Fireworks exploded overhead, and the Great Leader waved. More than 100,000 performers acted out scenes of socialist glory with translated names like If the Party Decides, So We Do and The General and People Are a Single Mind. On the field, thousands of performers simulated the action of waves...
...reason I can't get myself to switch allegiances, as I so successfully did with newsweeklies the day I got this job, is simply because the Yankees win. You can either join the phony, rich, successful people, or you can sit at a second-rate stadium listening to You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet and being bitter. This is America, where rich people's sons get to run for President or put together expensive baseball teams, and sometimes, if they're lucky, both. And even if it's just from the bleachers, I want to feel like a part...