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...Bush reached it too. "The end of an election is the beginning of a new day," he said in a 7-minute address that seemed to contain large chunks of the acceptance speech he didn't get to give on election night - common ground on education and Social Security, dreams of bipartisanship in the next Congress, praise for the size of the American heart. "Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes needed to win the presidency," Bush said. The transition from Austin to Washington will...
...Whatever number they wind up with may not be good enough for Al Gore. David Boies, the veep's head lawyer and best spinner, says he'll get up early on Monday morning and add Palm Beach to next week's Miami-Dade fight - because he doesn't like the way the dimpled chads are being treated by the county's canvassing board. (They're being counted, but only if the voter poked some other dimples...
...loud enough to force one of these guys to the sidelines. But the presidency is still an elected office, and both men will want the public's blessing too, no matter how badly those voters botched the job the first time around. And in a week, America will get to mull the same choice their highest court has: Lawyers or politicians...
...might know the outcome by Friday. Ninety minutes of arguments (which two Florida GOPers want to get in on) start at 10 a.m., and Rehnquist has a reputation for fast turnarounds. If the Justices go with Bush, it's all over; if they go with Gore it could start all over again, with Bush likely to turn to the lawmakers in Florida (and maybe Washington) for help and Gore continuing to ride Boies all the way to the White House...
...Which raised the question: Did Kato really intend to mount this challenge, or did he get carried away over the grilled fish and warm sake? Nonsense, say two pundits at the dinner, Hisayuki Miyake and Shigezo Hayasaka. He knew to whom he was talking, they say, and the session was on the record. More likely, the episode revealed that Kato is a creature of the very habits - decision-making behind closed doors - that he claims to want to change. He can take comfort from one thing. The LDP's most powerful deal-maker, Hiromu Nonaka, said the result doesn...