Word: handed
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...hand, this entails a willingness to engage in dialogue with other organizations, but, on the other hand, and perhaps more importantly, this entails a willingness to permit dialogue within the walls of an organization itself. Indeed, organizations that are officially recognized, and oftentimes funded, by the University ought to allow students to become active members regardless of whether their beliefs are consistent with the dominant ideology espoused by the group. The College Democrats may not agree with individuals who espouse Republican beliefs just as Harvard Right to Life may not agree with students who are pro-choice...
...There is a flickering possibility that Judge N. Sanders Sauls, who basically spit tobacco juice on David Boies' black Reeboks, left the Gore team a back door: what the judge deemed the "reasonable probability" that the hand count could "change or place in doubt the outcome of the election." And Boies' case is that there's only one way to tell...
...Gore still won plenty by not losing. The Florida Supreme Court will eagerly take up its second chance to pass muster with its betters, and the Gore campaign has no concrete reason to give up its current, much more critical fight before that court for new hand counts in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Possibly they'll have to add Broward County to that list. Boies' sweeping de novo request covers more than enough votes for Gore...
...Florida Supreme Court takes supplemental briefs from Gore and Bush lawyers Tuesday at 3 p.m. on the case SCOTUS sent back to them for retooling, and by then court spokesman Craig Waters will likely have announced the arrival of the Sauls hand-count appeal, which Gore still thinks he can win on legal grounds. Sauls' sweeping "burden of proof" rejection may well have been an acknowledgment that David Boies was going to sue no matter what he did. So Sauls kicked the whole mess upstairs, and it'll be up to Florida's highest court - barring a 5,000-vote...
...Gore gets his hand counts - depending of course on what combination of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade he gets - it will be Bush who will have to make a crucial calculation: Appeal all the way back up to the Supreme Court, or take his lumps and hope to win on the numbers one more time. (That's possible, especially if it's Miami-Dade and Broward on a tighter standard...