Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...small courtesy, but Charlie Stenholm never forgot it. During close re-election contests in the 1990s, Stenholm, the conservative Democratic Congressman from West Texas, never had to cope with George W. Bush campaigning against him. The Republican Governor never even posed for photos with Stenholm's rivals. "That doesn't happen by accident," Stenholm says...
...would like to appoint three blacks to high-level positions--Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice as National Security Adviser and a third person yet to be named. Powell and Rice would be serving in government posts more important than those held by any other African American--even in the Administration of a certain Democrat who bragged that he wanted his Cabinet to "look like America." That's a huge irony, considering that 92% of blacks slapped aside Bush's claim to be a different kind of Republican and voted against him. Even more of them would have...
...some shortsighted politicians, such a wholesale rejection at the polls might bring thoughts of payback. Yet even some of Bush's strongest black opponents, such as Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., say they expect just the opposite from George W. Appointing Powell and Rice, they say, would be a way for Bush to court the group that spurned him most. "I've heard Republican strategists like Newt Gingrich argue that if they could just get 15% of the black vote, they would be in power for a millennium," says Jackson, who at 35 is showing signs of being as wily...
...entire press corps in Tallahassee, no branch of government worth its salt wants to be left out of a constitutional drama. And there's a branch of the Republican Party willing to go down for a cause--like Newt Gingrich, the impeachment posse and majority leader Tom Delay--even if it's in flames. Feeney was willing to give Jeb a pass on signing any bill, but Jeb enthusiastically jumped in, calling the maneuver "an act of courage," and saying "I can't recuse myself from my constitutional duties as Governor...and I can't recuse myself frankly of being...
...going about his business, hearing domestic-violence cases in nearby Wakulla County, when a computer randomly assigned him a colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a resume to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets no breaks in Sauls' courtroom, and so far that has been...