Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...captains paper the condos with Gore flyers, to the west, to the Panhandle, where Republicans stayed home after being told by the networks that it was over, Gore had won. (If Jesse Jackson liked these people, he'd call them "those who were cruelly disenfranchised by the media.") And even the recount showed Mr. Bush the winner...
...demanding recounts until he has enough votes for victory. What Gore has wanted all along is one thorough recount. It is the Bush side that has been purposely running out the clock. There are actual, substantive disputes here too, of course. Reasonable people can differ about dimpled chads, and even about recount deadlines. And yes, the Gore side has made fatuous arguments of its own. But the Republicans' campaign to delegitimize Gore's efforts has been dishonest even by prevailing standards...
...Bush's is a dull, incurious brain. I have sometimes suspected the reverse: that Gore is a nicer guy than imagined but not as smart as he would like everyone to think; and that Bush is smarter, but a lot less nice, than he seems. The two men even out, in some irritating...
After the Kfar Darom attack, Israel sent helicopter gunships to bombard Dahlan's offices. But the reprisal triggered the sort of reaction Barak fears most: Egypt yanked its ambassador from Tel Aviv, and even his U.S. supporters questioned Israel's use of force. In Israel, however, the reaction was different: 100,000 demonstrators converged on Jerusalem to demand a tougher response...
...competition. Instead of offering fresh new product, Chrysler rolled out an "all new" minivan that looks a lot like the old one, with expensive frills like power doors. Overproduction has forced the company to offer incentives of up to $4,000, tempting a loss on every sale. Chrysler even bungled its hottest product. There wasn't enough production capacity to meet demand for the wildly successful PT Cruiser, a hybrid retro minivan/station wagon. So even as auto-industry sales surged to a historic high last summer, Chrysler was beginning to hemorrhage...