Word: anyways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...nothing really went awry. Chaos never did ensue. We now have a president whom everyone seems to accept as president. Yes, he has a little less time for what pundits call "the transition," but new presidents always stumble around for the first couple of years anyway, so what does a delay of a few weeks matter...
...actually face trial. The medical checks and interrogations obviously touch the once untouchable general, and the military doesn't like this. But they also know nothing is actually happening to the general. Even if he's under house arrest, it's not as if he leaves his house much anyway. But for the human rights activists, pressing these cases against Pinochet even though he'll never actually go to jail serves a purpose - it's a way of putting him and his regime on trial without actually forcing him to go to court...
...celebrating this milestone; we've already had one millennium celebration in the last XII months, and no amount of persuasion will convince the populace that the calendar started in the Year I, not the Year...well, not the year before that. [This was before zeros, at least in Europe anyway. The Hindus, Arabs and Mayans had zeros, but it didn't seem to do them much good...
...comparison, what's going on here is almost an innocent minuet. It doesn't happen very often, and it isn't fun to watch, but we now have all three legs of our government out on the dance floor, all twirling around the same question: Who picks our Presidents, anyway? The Executive, the courts or the Legislative Branch? Or the people, however we count them...
...shatter; he may yet prove himself capable of accomplishing what his father and Bill Clinton could not. But according to one staffer for a moderate House Democrat, Bush needs to move fast and recognize that any real push for cooperation can't be about lip service. "For the moment, anyway, everyone seems prepared to cooperate - and there will be, I think, a genuine effort to figure out what 'bipartisanship' really means," the staff member told TIME.com Friday. "From our standpoint, it's about both Republicans and Democrats being in the room when bills are being written, so that everyone involved...