Word: handing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...light and fits easily into pocket or purse, but its compression comes at a cost: the necessity of filling each page to the maximum has produced sometimes uncomfortably small, though sharp, illustrations. Which one should birders buy? The answer for many will probably be both: Kaufman to have in hand for quick reference in the field, with Sibley waiting at home for post-trip analysis. No etymologist would be content to own just one dictionary. Why should birders be any less resourceful...
...upcoming Family Man (co-starring Don Cheadle) and last year's prison drama The Green Mile. In that film, Michael Clarke Duncan plays a superstrong, superdumb MAAF on death row who cures one of his jailers (Tom Hanks) of a urinary-tract infection by laying a magical hand on his crotch. It's probably the only time Duncan will make it to third base on the big screen...
...Bagger Vance, and that movie, so far, has been a box-office flop. Smith is a bigger star than Damon, and yet it's Damon who wins the tournament and gets the girl, and it's Smith who needs to get a new agent. BHGs, on the other hand, exist to soften the punch of racially charged movies, to embody the notion that not all racists are bad people. They offer the possibility of grace to all the bigots in the audience. That last group might include a few movie executives...
...than 25 lawsuits filed in the past week and a half scare you. The legal morass is shallower than it first appears. In essence there are just three continuing legal battles: the Republican attempts to stop all manual recounts from going forward, the Democratic attempts to get counties to hand count their ballots and to keep these recounts going, and the struggle of some Florida citizens to force a new election in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach cases are moving slowly, but in the others there has been a clear winner, at least so far: all but one decision...
...Volusia and Palm Beach counties (joined by the Gore team) file suit in Leon County circuit court to extend the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for certifying their results. The argument: since state law allows hand counts and since those under way may be completed after the deadline, the state should wait to certify results until the hand counts...