Word: posting
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...state's decision, the Bush campaign hopes that Gore's challenges will lose needed momentum, particularly in the court of public opinion. Most polls show the country evenly split as to whether a speedy resolution is preferable to a full deliberation of all the disputes. An ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 80 percent of Americans would support whichever candidate is inaugurated...
Americans have suffered their disenfranchisement largely because of a traditional, habitual respect for the U.S. Supreme Court. They have no such instinctive respect for the Florida Supreme Court, which until yesterday they had never heard of. Its attempt to throw a presidential election by inventing post facto election law is surely a bridge too far. It begins with the justices setting themselves up as defenders of the "will of the people" against what they contemptuously call "hypertechnical reliance upon statutory provisions," or what other people call "adherence...
...soldiers worked to trace the origin of the shots. Fearing that other shooters might be training their sights on his men, Dagan ordered an armored personnel carrier and a Merkava tank to rumble up to secure a 500-yd. perimeter. The soldiers traced the attack to a Palestinian police post near the road. They found spent cartridges inside; the police were nowhere to be seen. Dagan ordered the post demolished. As darkness fell, the colonel reopened the three-mile road connecting the Gaza Strip's 5,000 settlers to Israel, but he knew the attackers would be back. "The peak...
DIED. J. RUSSELL WIGGINS, 96, editor of the Washington Post and U.N. ambassador; in Maine. During his 21-year tenure at the Post, Wiggins turned the laboring paper into a national force. He left journalism at 64 for politics but four months later began a 30-year career at the helm of the often whimsical Maine weekly, the Ellsworth American...
This collection is notably strong in African, pre-Columbian and post-1945 art. But many families start out in the Gateway Gallery, with its family-oriented exhibits and Discovery Room. Its current interactive display, "Stories in Art," includes a three-dimensional version of The Peaceable Kingdom. "I don't know if this kind of space is a part of all museums, but it should be," says Jeff Dole of Dallas, who often takes kids Andrew, 11; Jack, 3; and Jena, 1. "I want to instill in my children a way to express themselves, whether musically or artistically...