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...about to find out, once and for all. It just requires more patience, and less pride, than our politics is accustomed...
Last week, before the state supreme court's thunderclap ruling, it was difficult if not impossible to find a lawmaker on Capitol Hill who expected Gore to survive. "The coffin was on the ground, and the dirt was being poured on top of it," says a top Senate Democratic aide. Publicly the lawmakers still supported the Vice President, albeit in a mechanical and slightly impatient way. Privately they prepared for life with President Bush...
Still, court watchers like to try to find correlations between a judge's background and how he decides cases. And biography may have played a role in this one. The Florida Four--the justices who voted for the recounts--are all outsiders of one sort or another. Quince has spoken publicly about facing racism and sexism in her career: at her first trial as a lawyer, the judge assumed she was the defendant. (And at the first oral argument in this case, when other justices were scrupulously referred to as "Your Honor," Quince was at one point addressed...
Police arrested Timothy Tyler, 24, a sometime friend of Antley's, on separate drug charges, none related to the jockey's death. But Tyler was witness to the depths Antley had sunk to. At 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 28, police came to the Pasadena home to find Antley and Tyler--and methamphetamine and marijuana. Antley told the police, "The meth and the marijuana is not mine. The other guy brought it." Antley, however, admitted to using dope a few hours before the cops arrived. (The drug charges against both men were later dropped...
...attempt to reduce the number killed at demonstrations. Yet a TIME investigation reveals that Israel's loosely drawn rules of engagement permit soldiers regularly to shoot at children. Hostile protesters younger than age 18, whether armed with guns or Molotov cocktails, even stones, are fair game when Israeli soldiers find their actions threatening. In many cases, Israeli attacks can be indiscriminate, such as machine-gun fire into crowded neighborhoods. Children are frequently victims in these cases as well. Medical officials estimate that 40% of the Palestinian dead in Gaza in the latest violence were under 18. (Israeli officials say they...