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...school kids, Republican mothers and Al Sharpton, a lady breezing by in a mink coat and a haggard man with a braided beard who was clutching a protest permit. At one point, the Bushies began yelling, "Con-cede again!" Which of course drew the Gore partisans' response, "Don't get snippy!" But scattered among the protesters were plenty of regular folks who waited hours--and even spent the night in tents--for a chance to watch the proceedings in person. Perhaps they weren't so different from the drivers who had paused at a rest stop off Florida's Ronald...
...come at the price of its staggeringly anachronistic aloofness. When the court boldly thrust itself into the 20th century by allowing those newfangled audiotapes of Friday's session to be released the same day, it was praised as a step forward. But no other branch of government could get away with such operational opacity. Recently, when a member of the media suggested that the high court's public information office might notify reporters of schedules via e-mail, he was told that the computers in that office are not Internet enabled...
...just the seriousness and deftness with which everyone approached the issues but also the inside look we got at the subtle drama playing out. Because of the court's obsessive secrecy--former clerks and administrators who speak publicly about what goes on there are treated as outcasts--we rarely get a glimpse of how the Justices' minds work. (By contrast, we get far too close a look at what goes on behind closed doors on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.) Swing voters O'Connor and Kennedy seemed to bat questions between them about how they might find a federal role...
...Every delay brings them closer to Dec. 12, when the states must appoint electors to the Electoral College. Even if Sauls does rule in Gore's favor this week that some 14,000 ballots from heavily Democratic areas must be counted, the counters may not have enough time to get it done...
...poised to be his boss, and it would take some growth in Washington for Bush to make up the deficit. The first step will be for Bush to put his hand on the Bible in January and finally take office. Now it's up to Cheney to help get him there...