Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...They are both nice. But they look really different up close. Vanna is probably in her forties, but she still looks great," Besu said...
...least whenever elections are as close as this one. But there was a moment last week when nine lawyers, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, brightened rather than blanched American democracy, asking us to look beyond the merely dimpled. Friday was a day unlike any other since the election--unlike the past month of candidates with their dueling speeches and seas of American flags, of squawking pundits on the cable channels, certainly unlike the silly spectacle of the previous day, when news choppers chased a Ryder truck full of ballots as it trundled up a highway for eight hours...
...look we got at the subtle drama playing out. Because of the court's obsessive secrecy--former clerks and administrators who speak publicly about what goes on there are treated as outcasts--we rarely get a glimpse of how the Justices' minds work. (By contrast, we get far too close a look at what goes on behind closed doors on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.) Swing voters O'Connor and Kennedy seemed to bat questions between them about how they might find a federal role for the court, almost conversing with each other through the advocates. At one point, Justice...
...Party. Having reached out to minorities during his campaign, Bush hopes to continue doing so with high-profile appointments to his Administration. Powell and Rice would be the two most highly placed African Americans ever in an Administration. Hispanic Congressman Henry Bonilla and Texas railroad commissioner Tony Garza are close to Bush and are under consideration for positions. With such a narrow electoral mandate and itty-bitty margins of power in the House and Senate, Bush knows that such appointments would help curry favor with constituencies, which could be crucial to legislative success...
...small courtesy, but Charlie Stenholm never forgot it. During close re-election contests in the 1990s, Stenholm, the conservative Democratic Congressman from West Texas, never had to cope with George W. Bush campaigning against him. The Republican Governor never even posed for photos with Stenholm's rivals. "That doesn't happen by accident," Stenholm says...