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BACKGROUND CHECKS AT GUN SHOWS...
Down in Austin, Rove and polling analyst Matthew Dowd were in their adjacent offices, glued to their computers and telephones. "They were like mad scientists with those calculators," says media strategist Mark McKinnon. "They were punching them so hard and so fast, it sounded like a machine gun." At various points one of them would shout that they were a thousand votes down or a thousand votes up. "We lived and died a thousand times tonight," said McKinnon. Spectators hovered outside Rove's office, looking in through a glass window. "We were all standing around like expectant fathers," says...
...would see that patience is of the essence, although we're getting beyond that now. Anyone who doesn't concede an election the moment Dan Rather declares a winner risks being labeled a sore loser. Gore was so eager to surrender in a timely way that he jumped the gun, only to renege later when Florida drifted back into contention. Bush nearly refused to accept the retraction, protesting that little brother Jeb had assured him the Sunshine State was his. To Gore, that wasn't a controlling legal authority. This time he was definitely right...
...hasty penmanship, others typed and stacked in neat piles for the taking, promise shelter and home cooking. On a bulletin board near the secretary of state's office, in between the notice about an upcoming Promise Keepers meeting and "Shoot for a Cure 2000" at the Coon Bottom Gun Club, a sign offers a two-bedroom townhouse...
...Until a new peace framework emerges, however, the impasse in negotiations leaves the Palestinian demand for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the Israeli demand for security, to be pursued over the barrel of a gun rather than over a shiny table. Although the Palestinians lack the military means to expel the Israelis from the occupied territories, they are able to sustain a low-level war of attrition in the hope that the human cost of maintaining military outposts and civilian settlements in Palestinian areas eventually outweighs any benefit for Israel...