Word: chained
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Supreme Court surprised just about every legal scholar on the planet and said it would hear the Bush petition that these ongoing recounts were unconstitutional. The search for wise elders with a good sense of direction had so far been in vain; judges farther down the food chain had had their fairness challenged, even as they ruled for the Democrats one day, the Republicans the next. Maybe the nation's highest court would be able to guide us home. "The Supreme Court is the only decent way out," said a Democrat who has worked for three presidents in as many...
...Where could it go from there? If Bush loses on the Sunday numbers, and SCOTUS turns him down, that's it. Unless he redirects, sends his lawyers back up the chain with a Gore-style contest. But that would be off-message, and anyway by then we may hear from the Florida legislature, whose Republicans can declare Bush president by a majority of representatives. Bush seems the more likely to go political...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the symbol's growth is that, in an age of electronic proliferation, Andre's playground is not the Internet. Instead, it's the old walls, billboards and utility boxes of ordinary physical cities. The viral proliferation usually associated with chain e-mails is instead a visual play of images in three dimensions--a rare phenomenon if only for the simple reason that paths cross much more often electronically than they do across the world. Postering the world to get a message out is, as most student groups have found, much more difficult and erratic...
...increasingly crazy presidential battle heads further up the judicial chain, it appears inevitable that it will land in laps of the seven justices of the Florida Supreme Court - all appointed by Democratic governors (with an assist in one case from Jeb Bush...
...cause confusion, rob the victor of his spoil, and vitiate what remains democratic in the system." Over in Paris, there was concern that the U.S. media had taken everyone for suckers. "When CNN and the other networks made these errors on calling Florida, it set off a worldwide media chain reaction," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "There is concern here that everyone from the average Joe watching French TV to the French president - and even Gore and Bush themselves - were taken in by the U.S. media's false alarm...