Word: could
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even good-looking pundits could use a double espresso, a razor and a soft-focus lens after eight hours...
...great American rhinoceros has become a brilliant tightrope walker. Who imagined that the greatest power the earth has ever known could balance its corpulent, corporate self so exquisitely and walk across the bridge into the 21st century as if toeing a cable over the abyss...
...that the only discretion Secretary of State Katherine Harris really needs is to make sure her office can muster a final answer in time for Dec. 12. And since her duties are merely a "ministerial act" - a contention the Bush team later appeared to confirm - certainly the hand counts could go on until, say, December 9 or so without serious damage to the rights of the Florida electorate...
...hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...weekend that as many as 1,500 overseas votes (many of them military, and many presumably meant for George W. Bush) had been discarded due to bureaucratic fine print, protests erupted around the country. The outrage was fueled on two fronts. First, the procedural question: How, many dissidents demanded, could Florida Democrats demand such unerring precision from military personnel while simultaneously insisting they could infer the "intent" of a largely Democratic constituency just by staring intently at "pregnant" chads? Second, a sense of enraged patriotism: Congressional Republicans were up in arms over the Democrats' move to block the ballots, threatening...