Word: predictably
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...consistency as well. But just as it had been difficult to predict during his presidential campaign which Gore you might see on any given morning, his argument for winning Florida was protean. He praised the hardworking Palm Beach canvassers one day and sued them the next. He wanted to count every vote, but countenanced his supporters' efforts to get thousands thrown out. He vowed to honor voter intent, a goal that lost some of its nobility as the nation saw how many kinds of guesswork that would take. So uneven was Gore's footing in the public relations war that...
Then he did go away--because the Supreme Court handed down a decision that felt more partisan than principled--and Democrats were outraged. Some Senators predict titanic battles if Bush gets to nominate new Supreme Court Justices. Some House members predict titanic battles over just about anything that happens in 2001. Aggrievement is a handy political tool, of course, and some of it no doubt is being manufactured by politicians who would love to see Bush fail so they could pick up seats in 2002. But even as lawmakers speak publicly of bipartisanship and healing, they speak privately...
GeneFormatics of San Diego, Calif., for instance, uses bioinformatic algorithms to help drug companies predict the function of proteins encoded by newly discovered genes. It does this by comparing the new proteins to proteins of known structure, generating a "fuzzy" picture of what each looks like. That, in turn, suggests what their biochemical function may be-and how best to shut them down...
...kingmaking - and -breaking - role in the fractious legislature, and that's powerful leverage for a minority party. But polls indicate that it would lose between four and six seats to Likud in a parliamentary election right now. Both parties draw support primarily from immigrants from Arab countries, and analysts predict that in an election focused almost exclusively on peace and security issues, there'd be a stampede of voters from the religious party back to the secular nationalists...
Luckily, I have managed to stay abreast of the next most important presidential race of the year 2000. At midnight tonight, Harvard will have its next Undergraduate Council President. Those of you who didn't ignore the fas% prompt (I predict a staggering 30 percent of the student body) will have just participated in enlarging the Harvard bureacracy--that same bureacracy we spend most of our undergraduate careers complaining bitterly about...