Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first one wondered if Florida's dysfunctional political-and-judicial world would manage to get it going in the first place. The state supreme court directed Judge Sauls--whose ruling they had just trashed--to oversee the recount, but Sauls, perhaps smarting from press reports about his previous battles with the high court, perhaps just not wanting to do its bidding, recused himself. A second judge, Nikki Clark, declared herself unavailable. So the job fell to Judge Lewis, the level-headed, mustachioed novelist-jurist who had disappointed the Gore team with his ruling four weeks ago backing Secretary of State...
...bellow and howl at Miami-Dade officials last month). Like most people, conservatives ran through a series of emotions last week. I was mildly pleased when Judge Sauls slapped down Vice President Gore's lawsuit contesting the election, and I was mildly alarmed by the Vice President's brief press conference, when he pronounced himself "optimistic" (Who's unbalanced now? I wondered), and then, when the Florida Supreme Court overturned Judge Sauls' ruling and confirmed Gore's optimism, I somehow managed not to foam at the mouth. But I was surprised and appalled. And then surprised again and pleased again...
ERIC MOUSSAMBANI In 1:52.72, the Equatorial eel proved that nearly drowning merits more press than winning...
Polls routinely show trust in the Supreme Court exceeding that of Congress and the presidency, to say nothing of the press, which ranks down there with lawyers. Asked who should be involved in deciding this election, 60% said the Supreme Court, and only 38% said either Congress or the Florida legislature...
...boys who still run the club. Clinton's top committee choices: Finance and Appropriations. Her legislative priority after being sworn in next month: a pork-barrel bill for upstate New York. "She's asked me workhorse questions," says Mikulski. "She didn't ask where the Senate press gallery was." She doesn't have to; the press gallery will come to her, and so may a big book advance. She's fed up with others writing books about her and her rocky marriage. Word is that Clinton will tell her side of the story about life as First Lady (with details...