Word: dons
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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All day long, he didn't act like a man who had just been shot. His lead had dropped to 193 votes--yet he didn't watch the hand counts start back up on TV; he wasn't constantly on the phone needling aides for updates throughout the morning. He...
Late last Friday afternoon, Senator Patrick Leahy, the gentlemanly Democrat from Vermont, sequestered himself in his office on Capitol Hill and ordered his aides not to interrupt him for anything short of war. "I don't care what's going on," he told them. "I don't want to be...
In other words, when Lieberman traveled to Capitol Hill Tuesday to rally the troops yet again, he may already have been outmatched. He met with Democratic Senators in the L.B.J. Room and received a polite reception, "the kind of applause you give for people you don't care about," as...
The striking thing about the division on the court was how unexpected the fault lines were. The breakdown was not along party lines: six of the seven justices are Democrats. Nor was it ideological: Leander J. Shaw Jr., one of the court's most liberal members, dissented. And political paybacks...
He didn't say that, like Barry Goldwater, he knows he's right. The recount may yet go forward in a race in which the margin of error has vastly exceeded the razor-thin margin of victory. Lieberman faults the media as much as George W. Bush's spin machine...