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Almost a year to the day after Florida fishermen pulled Elian Gonzalez from the sea, there emerges an Elian-in-reverse. On Nov. 12 five-year-old Floridian JONATHON LOREN COLOMBINI illegally entered Cuba with his mother, Cuban-born Arletis Blanco Perez, her boyfriend and their 18-month-old daughter. Blanco wants to stay...
...eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a ré sum é 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 true. The legal arguments of the lawyers may be as well tailored as their suits, but the judge doesn't seem impressed. One team wants to slow...
...years, the rest of America has been entertained from a safe distance by Florida's headlines, but our endemic weirdness can no longer be regarded as amusing local color. The very fate of the American presidency now rests in its slimy, surreal grip. As a native Floridian, I advise you to brace yourselves. Given our recent history, more bizarre twists are to be expected...
...rather have it happen in Florida than somewhere else," Palm Beach county resident Alex M. Rampell '03 says. "It makes me proud to be a Floridian. Because when it comes down to it, it's my county that's going to decide the President for the entire country...
...very weird for me to think that my vote really matters," says Floridian Clay B. Tousey '02.. "Three hundred is a nice round number, and if it weren't for [me], it would...