Word: classically
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Classic Gore - explanatory and a little condescending, and hard to disagree with without sounding like a vote-suppressing meany. And with that justification out of the way, Gore could get to the endgame portion of the evening - because at this point, who doesn't want an endgame...
...recently bequeathed me an old ZB Custom pedal steel, and I figure, what better time to tackle my old nemesis. It turns out my gift guitar was abused as a young instrument, and I send it to Nashville to be worked on by veteran steel repairman Mike Cass, a classic tinkerer in the Bud Isaacs mode, who has a few extra metal rods custom-made for me for what seems like a ridiculously low price. Mike gives me detailed explanations regarding the butterfly nuts and the torque of the rods underneath, which I pretend to understand, but even a fool...
...Gore began with the usual boilerplate about how this was a test of democracy, and followed with a classic Gore-as-schoolteacher explanation of why machines sometimes make mistakes. ("Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...") He insisted that those mistakes can be caught in manual recounts, recounts that are "accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters...
...Gore began with the usual boilerplate about how this was a test of democracy, and followed with a classic Gore-as-schoolteacher explanation of why machines sometimes make mistakes. ("Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...") He insisted that those mistakes can be caught in manual recounts, recounts that are "accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters...
Like a lot of us, Vinik learned that the hard way. His biggest mistakes occurred when he made too much of his grand view. While at Magellan, he famously shifted into bonds one year, only to have stocks surge ahead. The "classic mistake," he says, is taking your eye off developments at individual companies...