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...brilliant and ingenious new show: the recount, the legal chess game, the presidentless suspense...
...Then, a counteroffer, a kind of sweetener, in case Bush is reluctant: Manually recount all 67 Florida counties, which "we believe... can be completed within seven days of the time it starts." He'll abide by that result too. Brilliant - two reasonable-sounding solutions to a mess Americans are wearying of, and both of them lawyer-free...
...brilliant and ingenious new show: the recount, the legal chess game, the presidentless suspense...
...Then, a counteroffer, a kind of sweetener, in case Bush is reluctant: Manually recount all 67 Florida counties, which "we believe... can be completed within seven days of the time it starts." He'll abide by that result too. Brilliant - two reasonable-sounding solutions to a mess Americans are wearying of, and both of them lawyer-free...
...first volume of Schlesinger's memoirs, A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T.S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/Appeasing long forgotten wars...