Word: helpful
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...tendency to creatively and arbitrarily mess things up, but, as we've seen, devolving power to state and local officials doesn't solve the problem of homosapient-ism, which is to say that human beings have biases, perspectives, quirks, and make errors. (Theresa LePore, a Democrat, tried to help seniors read the ballot in Palm Beach by making the type-face bolder. In doing so, she had to re-arrange candidate's names. That might have cost her candidate the presidency.) Good intentions, unstable consequences. A fudged solution...
After leaving the state to attend a law school that admitted blacks, he went on to defend Parks and King, and to help to desegregate Alabama...
...help you with anything?" one asked meekly...
...Friday, Dec. 8 (?) If Sauls rules for Gore, that's the projected end of the Miami-Dade undervote hand count. (As we know by now, it's an approximate target at best.) Gore may have help from his demand for a recount of the hand recount in Palm Beach (not enough dimples, says the Gore team), and the thousands of absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin counties are a wild card. But by the end of next week, Gore will need the numbers or he'll likely be told to go back to Tennessee, with any remaining "clouds" over Bush...
...that's exactly what it is. Of course he also genuinely believes that he can help, and that it's not going to be good for Israel to have an election going on at a time of crisis. But it is very much colored by the fact that he knows if he goes up against Bibi, he's going to end up losing, and at best end up being foreign minister...