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Dates: during 2000-2000
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That meant the flaws and weaknesses of the effort were Gore's as well. For all his tenacity, Gore also flailed, fearful of closing any option as he gobbled up information and explored all his possibilities. He indulged his fascination with complexity and went in many directions at once. In retrospect, he might have been better off simply calling for a statewide recount by hand, as some of his strategists recommended in the first days after the election; instead, he picked a handful of reliably Democratic counties in which to make his stand. He might have moved more quickly...
...last year the city district--despite spending $8,502 a year on each of its 76,000 students--failed to meet even one of the state's 27 performance standards. The voucher program, which began in 1995, gave the city's poorest parents what wealthier parents already had: the option of sending their kids elsewhere. Today 60% of the 3,761 kids using vouchers come from families with incomes at or below the poverty line, and 96% of the kids who use vouchers go to sectarian schools like St. Adalbert...
...enticed to watch the broadcast lectures at their convenience as opposed to not at all. Students who would have gone to the lecture but were prevented from doing so by extenuating circumstances--sickness, accidental oversleep or off-campus activities--benefit from the broadcast of lectures on the web. This option provides these students with the opportunity to recapture the material they missed. For these students most of all, taping the lectures and broadcasting on the Internet "works" because watching the lectures off the Internet is preferable to viewing videotapes at the library...
...Time to heal? Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader, gives it an "or else!" reading: "Bipartisanship is not an option anymore, it is a requirement...
Recently Mazzoleni has fallen into the habit of running four or five defensemen per game. He might get lucky employing this option against the Wildcats, considering that they have the worst scoring offense in Hockey East--a meager 2.12 goals per game...