Word: could
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Abraham Lincoln, faced with the breakup of the Republic, suspended habeas corpus. What could the Florida Supreme Court do, when confronting a similar threat, except to tell the vote counters to keep on counting, and to count until they had found sufficient votes to cause Barbra and the rest to unpack their bags and redirect their drivers from the international terminal at LAX to Bel-Air for lunch...
...pile at issue there - with 10,000 "undervotes," 930 isn't a tall target - could get to pick Sunday's winner...
...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...
...reasons for Washington's concern is obvious: Egypt, the first Arab state to make peace with Israel, plays an anchor role in the peace process, supported by Jordan. It's extremely unlikely that any new peace initiatives could get off the ground without their support, and by downgrading diplomatic ties they're sending a message to the Palestinian and Arab streets that there are no hopes of any short-term resumption of peace efforts. Yet it is those same streets, in combination with Israel's use of more aggressive tactics in recent weeks, that may have forced that decision...
...pursue their desire for independence via negotiation with the new regime in Belgrade. But for those KLA hard men who remain determined to use any means necessary to win independence for Kosovo and unite it with Albania, NATO troops may become an obstacle in their path. And that could make the peacekeeping mission more than a little distasteful to some key NATO members...