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...while he cut away at the technical truth of Brace's claims, Beck did something else - he goosed the passionate and pontification-prone witness into helping the Bush team with its backup plan. As Brace defended the integrity of some dimples, he got Brace to valiantly defend the abilities of canvassing boards to discern dimpled intent. Whoops. Boies, looking for another 600 votes, is also suing for a recount of the hand count in Palm Beach. If Gore's witness for his case in Miami-Dade turns out to be credible, he'll have done some work for Bush...
...students outside maintained rotating solidarity shifts, in part to defend against an arrest during the night. Students feared that the police would take advantage of the absence of media to make an arrest late in the evening...
After leaving the state to attend a law school that admitted blacks, he went on to defend Parks and King, and to help to desegregate Alabama...
Most immediately, all rhetoric aside, and fair or not, the reality is that the current violence won't stop until the Palestinian Authority acts to keep mobs and gunmen away from checkpoints. This is because the Israeli Defense Force will always vigorously defend checkpoints, working under the assumption that if it doesn't, the mobs will pour through and attack the Israeli civilans who often live right beyond. At the same time, Israel should refrain from rocket attacks against targets inside the West Bank and Gaza. Justified or not, they only worsen the situation...
...could go either way. A court obsessed with states' rights might find it quite natural to defend the right of the Florida legislature to write and enforce a body of election law that is, shall we say, eminently disputable. After all, there's nothing unconstitutional about confusing legislation. (Suggestion for the next state congress: Leave the deadlines in place, but make the hand counts more manageable by confining them to ballots not read by the machines. And if that doesn't work, buy new machines.) Then again, the high court might side with Gore's insistence that a state Supreme...