Word: tatting
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...throwing Gore a lifeline, while the court's own Chief Justice warned that its ruling "propels this country and this state into an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis." Bush allies like Jack Kemp tried to discredit the court, charging that it had carried out a "judicial coup d'état." But then the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the sanctity of the election procedures, questioning the legality of the recount and bailing out Bush while the liberal dissenters warned that "preventing a recount from being completed will inevitably cast a cloud on the legitimacy...
...sufficient evidence that the peace process isn't going anywhere soon, the killing of an Israeli security guard at a government building in East Jerusalem and the discovery of the body of an Israeli civilian in the nearby neighborhood of Gilo could easily develop into a tit-for-tat shooting war among civilians in and around the Holy City...
...Miguel Gonzalez, who had gone to the U.S. to claim him, were free to go home. Cubans like architect Ernesto Pasalagua, 67, called Elian's return "a great victory, just like the Bay of Pigs." But this custody saga has proved to be more than an extended tit for tat. Just as Elian's young mind will now struggle to reconcile the polarized worlds of Pikachu and Elpidio, he may have forced post-cold war politics to do the same. That's largely because Elian showed many Americans that not everyone in Cuba wears a beard, fatigues and an anti...
...arrested not just in Cleveland in May and in Orlando, Fla., in June (Baptists), but plans to do likewise in Long Beach in July (Presbyterians) and possibly in Denver a week later (Episcopalians). The only transdenominational figure on the scene, he will establish the nightly-news rat-tat-tat for the entire season of contention. His attitude toward the various denominations? "We don't debate anymore. You change your policies, or we're going to split you apart and leave...
...himself had been sold out. What's the best thing to do? Robert Axelrod, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, tested various strategies over a number of years and discovered that as the game is repeated over and over, a simple strategy of tit for tat tends to win: if someone gives you something, reciprocate; if no one does, don't. That's what the bats...