Word: interpreters
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...difficult thing to interpret from a student's point of view, because if a student does something and doesn't get caught, he might read it as the proctor looking the other way," he says...
...have no tolerance for spin. Right? Well, not exactly. The truth is that journalism has bought into the spin culture. Getting spun is flattering, like being seduced, or like being admitted to the club. And if politicians didn't spin, reporters and pundits would have nothing to interpret and act knowing about...
...elected governments." While I do not agree with a number of the rulings that the Florida court and the U.S. Supreme Court have made in recent years, I defend their right to make them. We absolutely need a court that will protect individual rights from majority rule and help interpret laws with conflicting provisions. I find that the Florida legislature has enacted laws that allow for manual recounts but do not provide deadlines with enough time to do such recounts. Perhaps the Florida Supreme Court is rewriting election laws, but someone must deal with the flaws that the Florida legislature...
...RUTH BADER GINSBURG APPOINTED BY Bill Clinton (1993) She usually votes with the liberals, but Ginsburg has been restrained in using Court power to second-guess legislatures. During the first round of arguments in this case, however, she also defended the Florida court's power to interpret the word of the state legislature...
...come from the 25 punch-card counties. Punch-card machines are less reliable than the pricier voting technology used in more Republican areas. Brevard County, for instance, which went 53 percent to 45 percent for Bush, uses optical scanners. "There are no dimples, crimples, pimples or anything else to interpret," says election supervisor Fred Galey. That's good for him but - if the hand count resumes - bad for Bush, since Brevard's 277 undervoted ballots probably contain few votes. By contrast, Pinellas County's 4,226 undervoted punch-card ballots could contain hundreds of votes, and Gore won Pinellas. Across...