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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Throughout U.S. history, only nine electors out of some 18,000 have violated their pledges. It's going to be hard to find one who's going to break his or hers. Frank Straka, a Bush-Cheney elector from Arizona, tells TIME, for example, that he won't switch even if Gore wins the popular vote nationally. "It's like the playoffs," he says. "One team may score more runs, but if they don't win the four games, they lose...
...Mikels insists that he has always worked clean, not wanting to leave his family with "a legacy of distaste"; thus, even movies with wonderfully lurid titles like "Blood Orgy of the She Demons" are essentially G-rated. "Apartheid" doesn't depart too much from this philosophy, except for the fact that a good deal of the time the proceedings resemble a trample-fetish video. However, in an era when Hollywood entertainment - "Charlie's Angels" included - is remarkably predictable, Mikels' work still comes as a cold slap in the face. "Apartheid's" oddly discordant tone, jarring juxtapositions, and the fact...
...meant to vote only once for the candidate of your choice? It's too bad, but there is really nothing you can do about it. It's human error, and there's no remedy for that. We've just got to live with it. There will be no winners even when Florida is resolved...
...Doesn't attacking Fatah militants make it even more difficult for Arafat to reestablish his authority...
...impossible. Dick Nixon did it back in 1960, even when he was fairly certain there had been a little hanky-panky back in the ballot boxes of Texas and Illinois. He did grudgingly and reluctantly, but he did it. And then he ran successfully just eight years later. Assuming that Bush survives his first term and performs in an unspectacular fashion, you could conceivably be ensconced in the Oval Office by January...