Word: act
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fight--how can the votes of the people of Florida compete with the power of the U.S. Supreme Court, especially when grossly used? If the court were to rule that these votes should be counted, they must also allow for an extension of Florida's elector certification deadline-an act which, unlike the current stay, if certainly within their power, as the Tuesday deadline is a federal law, not a part of the Constitution. If they do not, then any decision will be, de facto, the selection of Bush as the next president-even if, by winning more votes...
...overturn the Florida Supreme Court's Nov. 21 ruling. Olson, a stellar appellate lawyer who worked in Reagan's Justice Department alongside Kenneth Starr, argued that the Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.O.P. archaeologists. The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling and dealing of competing slates of Southern...
...Hackford the storyteller is truly allowed to cast his spell-too much of the film feels curbed, dramatically and emotionally, to allow the story to blossom into the white-knuckle suspense ride that it so staunchly demands to be. The game of hostage negotiation is clearly a high-wire act, yet everything is so laid out that we never get the sense that things are volatile, that they could explode at any second...
Split Confusion, a new one-act play by Ned Colby '02, who is also a Crimson editor, begins as Georges Depardieu (cousin of French film star Gerard Depardieu) falls drunkenly asleep in an easy chair in his home. When he wakes up, his house does not belong to him anymore; it belongs instead to an anonymous unseen "Master" and his smug butler Jeremiah, who are throwing a dinner party for two couples, each of which is an alternate version of Georges and his girlfriend Chery. Georges 2 is a pimp whose assets include Chery 2; George 3 is Georgia...
...that, I suspect, has to do with the successful Bush p.r. machine and their shrewd assessment that in politics, as in real estate, occupancy is nine-tenths of the law and, more important, of perception. If you act like the President-elect, a lot of people will think you are the President-elect...