Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With Holy Cross up by two and less than a minute remaining, Harvard had to foul and let the Crusaders take their chance at the foul line, where they had not been spectacular. Instead, two defenders didn't foul, which wasted precious time. Finally, Clemente was forced to pick up his fourth foul by pushing Sankes. When Clemente was put in position to have to foul again a few seconds later, the Crimson was deprived of its best player and, more importantly, its only clutch shooter...
...court's reckoning, that's plenty of time for the counties to complete the counts and for the loser to contest the result before December 12, the day Florida has to pick which slate of electors to send to Washington. And well worth the wait. Legislatures are fallible - "the will of the people, not a hyper-technical reliance upon statutory provisions, should be our guiding principle in election cases" - and hand counts are supreme. "Our society has not yet gone so far as to place blind faith in machines. In almost all endeavors, including elections, humans routinely correct the errors...
...Maybe. Because this aggressive, newspaper-reading, activist court was in fact rather discreet about the one factor that according to the numbers will pick the winner: the dimples. Oh, they hinted at it, calling "voter intent" to be paramount and citing an Illinois Supreme Court case that read a dent like a vote. But these seven Democrats were obviously a little worried what history might think of their politics. So they passed a little bit of the buck...
...deconstructs baguettes. Her comforting tone will soothe even the nervous novice: "It's only flour and water and time," she insists. But a look through these pages shows that when Glezer bakes, it's actually high art. If anything is going to persuade time-starved American cooks to pick up the yeast, it will be this breathtaking opus...
...more than 200 years, we have agreed that a ballot cast settles the issue. However the final, authorized vote comes out in Florida, the candidate with the lower number should do a Nixon: pick up the phone and show some grace...