Word: posting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...odious or ordinary. But becoming president makes him suddenly splendid - or at least impressive. The magic office gives him the radiance of power. In early 1969, the Washington Post's liberal cartoonist Herblock granted to his old nemesis Richard Nixon a famous "free shave" - a fresh start, the refulgence that comes with the Oval...
...daylight in upon magic, as Bagehot said of the monarchy. The post-election has scrambled the dynamic. A ritual transfer of power should go this way: We fight through a messy, noisy campaign, we line up in an orderly fashion to choose one candidate or the other, and then we reconcile ourselves to the choice and feel relief that we can forget about it. Now there is no relief. The mess that should have ended has followed us in to Thanksgiving dinner, and may be threatening Christmas...
...software that converts DVD-quality movies into easily-transferrable files is also difficult to find. Under the Digital Media Copyright Act, it is illegal to distribute DeCSS, the program used to decrypt DVD movies and copy them onto disk. The MPAA has routinely threatened those who post the program on their websites or servers with legal action...
...letter was sent out in a mass e-mail message to all Tufts students. According to Young, the administrators agreed to post the letter on Reitman's website, as well as including it in the "Confronting Intolerance" brochure that is given to all first-year students...
...According to briefs filed Wednesday at the Supreme Court, the Bush team views their looming appearance before the Justices as nothing less than a test of the complete post-vote process. Their argument holds that if SCOTUS finds the Florida Supreme Court acted outside its jurisdiction in extending the recount tally deadline - that it does not, in their view, have the power to override preexisting election laws - the Court has simultaneously nullified Gore's contest of the Florida election results...