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...emerged as a forceful advocate of vouchers. Others back Rod Paige, superintendent of schools in Houston. Or Joyce Ladner, a sociologist at the Brookings Institution, whose idea of reviving orphanages to rescue kids from dysfunctional homes was appropriated by Gingrich. The big question is whether Bush would be wise enough to add independent-minded blacks of that caliber to his inner circle or would he succumb to the old Republican habit of stacking his government with second raters and Uncle Toms...
...cross-examination, Bush lawyer Beck peppered Hengartner with hypothetical questions relating to the left-hand side of the voting machine, apparently hoping to discredit Brace's testimony but serving primarily to underscore a serious miscalculation on the part of Gore's legal team - which would probably have been wise to have stuck with the Miami-Dade recount as the basis for their contest. Then, instead of wasting two witnesses trying to prove esoteric mechanical flaws of machines in Palm Beach, the Democrats might have scored a few points by insisting they were only trying to procure a first count...
...made me feel even better about Melba and George. It all got started in 1963 when Jones' producer, Pappy Daily, signed up Montgomery to a record deal that led to some touring and some recording (and, according to some reports, some romance). Singing-wise, it was a great match. Tennessean Montgomery's bluegrassy, somewhat reedy voice both contrasted and complemented Texan Jones' more mellow sound...
...perhaps, be his people's high expectations of a new political order in Mexico. But the mammoth odds against his efforts to reform his country's torpid economic and political system give him a Quixotic sheen, which has everyone from the poorest peasants in Oaxaca to the most worldly wise diplomats in Mexico City ready to extend him a generous line of political credit...
...Gore camp, realizing that any legal attack on absentee ballots tends not to jibe p.r.-wise with its call for "every vote be counted," has distanced itself from the suit. But Gore himself, pressed Wednesday by CNN's John King, allowed that "if the ballots for one party were illegally changed and fixed, and the ballots from the other party that didn't have that information were rejected and thrown away, that doesn't seem fair...