Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Even the state's three Catholic Bishops, who are usually more reserved than their evangelical brethren, couldn't resist taking an early and forceful stance in support of the initiative. In addition to their public support, they mailed pictures of the Pope with biblical quotes about marriage to all of Nebraska's Catholics, who voted 3-1 in favor...
...black ministers representing more than 40 congregations was less subtle, pledging at a press conference that gay marriage "is straight out of hell and we need to send it back where it came from." Turning to an automotive metaphor to disparage the idea that love between gay people is even possible, one of them said, "Look in your car, a battery is no good with two positive posts or two negative posts...
...tired. The anchors, the pundits, retired Floridians and, of course, college kids are tired of Indecision 2000. For all the "Get Out the Vote" rhetoric, unless you live in Florida your vote hardly mattered. And even if you are a Palm Beach retiree who can't read a butterfly ballot (arguably the most important voter in the nation today), you still won't be deciding the next president--a judge will...
...would take a wildly indelicate Fed chairman to make a policy change at a time like this, and indelicate is one thing Alan Greenspan is not. Surprising absolutely no one, Greenspan's FOMC board announced at 2:15 Wednesday that it was leaving interest rates alone. Even its bias - slightly worried about inflation, but not overly - will remain unchanged until its December meeting, and few expect the Fed to do anything then either. In the middle of a wild and crazy fourth quarter for investors, politicians and everybody with a healthy interest in where America is headed, the economy...
...Stubbornly on opposite sides of the Rorschach test that is Florida election law, these guys sound determined to let William Rehnquist have the final say. Bush even declined Gore's offer of a pre-endgame peace summit. "Once this election is over, I would be glad to meet with Vice President Gore, and I join him in pledging that regardless of who wins after this weekend's final count, we will work together to unite our great country...