Word: handedness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Washington appeared more mindful of the diplomatic danger following Monday's Israeli attacks on Gaza, publicly cautioning Israel against an "excessive" response and privately, but through the New York Times, castigating it for the same. The attempt to assume a more even-handed posture may reflect an attempt to shore...
Amazingly enough, there is a precedent for this seemingly absurd debate. In 1990, the outcome of a fiercely contested race for an Illinois House seat turned on dimpled ballots. After a recount established a tie between the candidates, the state's Supreme Court Justices personally examined 27 indented ballots and...
Scenario Three:Gore wins, but when the GOP-controlled Florida state legislature meets to appoint their slate of electors, they turn their backs on the count and decry the inclusion of the dimpled ballots as a gross misinterpretation of their own legislation. They ignore the dimpled chad-enhanced vote (remember...
Bush called old friends that weekend and chewed the thing over, secretly asked for help from outside advisers, handed out his private fax line so the campaign wouldn't know. "Tell me what you're seeing out there," Bush implored, trapped in his own bubble. But he had not given...
At 2:15 a.m. the networks gift-wrapped Florida once more and this time handed it to Bush. "Everyone went insane, screaming and crying," McKinnon says. Virtually the entire staff in the headquarters left the building, forming a dance line up Congress Avenue along the eight blocks to the celebration...