Word: openly
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...weren't marked up tight enough, and they were able to find an open player and knock it in," McCarthy said. "Makinen is a great player, really good in the air. But there's no excuse, we needed to be marked up on that...
...Probably. The Constitution says they shall submit their votes "sealed" to the president of the Senate, but generally the balloting has been quite open. We'll know for sure on Jan. 6, when Senate president Al Gore reads the results before a joint session of Congress...
...Well, the only electoral votes that Gore could open are ones "certified" by the Governor. (This is different from state officials certifying the election.) If the Governor certifies the Bush-Cheney electors and the Gore-Lieberman electors send in a rival ballot, it's ignored. The only exception here is if the Senate and House object to having the Bush-Cheney electoral votes counted. As for Gore, his role under the Constitution and federal statute is pretty much just reading the ballots or breaking a tie in the Senate over the Vice President. But the Senate and House, concurrently...
...people and the commentators...that write about me, I might be just as good as dead the day I leave office. But that's not the way I look at my life." And so, following Jimmy Carter's strategy of countering bad memories with good works, Clinton will open a second front in his war for posterity. All Presidents, says historian Brinkley, "try to improve their reputation after they leave office. Andrew Johnson was elected Senator after he was impeached, and Herbert Hoover traveled the world as a humanitarian and wrote more than two dozen books." The Clinton Center, which...
...ridiculed that week. And if you peeked up at the front of Air Force Two, you might see the most serious man in the world hamming it up, calling a photographer forward to snap a picture of the Vice President pretending to have a weighty discussion with a poor, open-mouthed dozing staff member...