Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...When the word from the Supreme Court came down, some counties hadn't even begun to separate out the undervotes. Some that had begun didn't even get the news for another hour. It was going to be a 60-odd-county kitten-herding, and the scattered reports only inspired confidence in the Gore camp and Democrats who had finally seen their dreams come true, if only for a little while. But were they coming true? Numbers had been bandied about: 58 net for Gore, 44 net for Bush in Miami-Dade. In Pinellas County, 272 ballots yielded...
...majority opinion wondered aloud whether these undervotes were even legal votes at all. Clearly they had some further questions about the Florida Supreme Court's second shot at reading (and, arguably, writing) Florida law, and clearly they didn't like what that decision had wrought. And they seem poised to do more than tinker with the details...
...Tonight, Al Gore, his surrogates - not to mention all the Democrats who must have been ready Friday to call for his concession - will react to his latest stay of execution with restrained elation and a brand-new plea: Let the counts finish, it won't be long. But even if the counts now ordered survive an instantly filed injunction/appeal by the Bush team up the stairs to the U.S. Supreme Court, can the approximately 180,000 undervotes across the state of Florida be dusted off, sifted through and tallied...
...causes of the current violence that had been mandated as part of the Sharm el-Sheik cease-fire agreement. Investigations launched by Amnesty International, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and the Israeli peace movement have strongly criticized Israel for using excessive force in response to the Palestinian intifada, even though they have to varying degrees criticized aspects of Palestinian conduct. And if the Mitchell inquiry endorses that view, it would add weight to Palestinian demands for an international monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. Mitchell?s centrality to the process may even raise pressure...
...Even as violence looks set to escalate in the coming days, Yasser Arafat is also facing mounting pressure from his own people to rein in Palestinian shooters. The mayors of Bethlehem, Beit Jalla and surrounding Palestinian areas have implored the Palestinian leader to ensure that gunmen stop using their residential neighborhoods for cover from which to fire on the Israelis. Residents of Beit Jalla have made no secret of their unhappiness with the continued shooting from the neighborhood towards the adjacent Israeli neighborhood of Gilo, believing that Palestinians are gaining nothing for the heavy price they're being forced...