Word: halt
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...Bernard Shaw to Lion Feuchtwanger returned from Moscow with soothing tales of Stalin justice in the workers' paradise. Thus the U.S.S.R. kept rolling along its road to hell. Now, Russia risks sliding the same way once again. Maybe it is too late for the exhausted and bewildered nation to halt the slide. Arresting Gusinsky is easier. But should Spain extradite Gusinsky to Moscow, the West might be making the same mistake it did in the 1930s...
Within 24 hours, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in with a bitterly divided blockbuster of its own: a 5-4 order directing the Florida canvassing boards to halt the recounts. Once again, the reaction was divided and partisan, but flipped in a fun-house mirror. This time, it was the Bush camp's James Baker saying it was "very, very gratifying" that the U.S. Supreme Court had "indicated a willingness and an interest in hearing this very, very important case." And it was the Gore campaign charging that a court was trying to hijack the will of the people...
Lawyers for Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush argued for a second and presumably final time before the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday, sparring over the court's Saturday decision to halt the Florida Supreme Court-mandated recount of statewide "undervotes...
...Another thing that seemed to bother Scalia was voter responsibility, as he hinted when he voted for the stay to halt "the counting of votes that are of questionable legality." The rickety old Votomatics are just hole-punching aids; if the voter has neither sufficient passion to puncture a piece of perforated cardboard nor sufficient intentness to follow directions and clean up his chads on his way to the to-be-tabulated pile, maybe magnifying glasses are too good for him. We make a voter make his way to the polls; do we demand so little of him from that...
...Netanyahu has denounced Barak for showing "weakness" in dealing with the Palestinians, and promises instead a return to his peace-through-strength policies. Barak is hoping to remind voters why they deserted Netanyahu in droves 18 months ago - precisely because he'd brought the peace process grinding to a halt. But Israeli voters have little enthusiasm for the peace process right now, even if a majority of them may ultimately accept it as a necessary evil. Early opinion polls suggest that no matter which personalities represent the various parties, the "peace camp" is in for a drubbing in the next...