Word: branches
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...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...
Americans like to think of the third branch of government--especially the highest court in the land--as a bastion against the surgical divide in the country. The voters couldn't decide between Bush and Gore, and Congress is split between Republicans and Democrats, but as we groped for a solution to the election mess, we couldn't help looking to the courts for a wisdom that rises above the nation's two angry political camps...
Krause said she hopes that the prominent role of the judicial branch in this election will not make Americans cynical about the courts...
...Wharton School, the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, will open a branch in San Francisco next year, school officials announced Tuesday...
...Connor warned of a "big red flag" in election law that seemingly requires courts to defer to the legislative branch, and Kennedy pointedly questioned recount standards that would vary from "table to table and county to county...