Word: pro
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bush finally seemed to be slipping into the new role as well. With two stunning court rulings in his favor Monday--Leon County Judge N. Sanders Sauls rejecting Gore's plea for a recount, and the U.S. Supreme Court setting aside the Florida high court's earlier pro-Gore ruling--he hoped not just for victory but for honor. In his best television performance in months, on CBS, Bush went out of his way to appear leaderly, good humored and generous toward Gore. "He and I share something," Bush said. "We both put our heart and soul into the campaign...
...glories of the year were all but buried by news from beyond the bleachers. Performance-enhancing drugs tarred the Sydney Olympics; free-agent baseball player Alex Rodriguez became the poster boy for greed when he reportedly demanded private jets and personal flacks in negotiations with the New York Mets; pro-basketball star Allen Iverson was called on the carpet by the NBA commissioner for misogynist imagery in his new hip-hop release; and football player Rae Carruth faced a real rap: he's on trial for ordering the murder of his girlfriend. For all the murk, some splendid performances managed...
...piece of the foreign policy puzzle: defense secretary, for which the top two names are Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge and former senator Dan Coats. It's already sparked the first "reasonable men can disagree" fight of the Bush administration, with Cheney pulling for Coats and Powell urging Ridge, the pro-choicer who might double as Bush's first dare to the religious right...
...Pro Bowl that fans were able to vote for their favorite selections...
...with tens of thousands of Palestinians. The message there was to continue the armed struggle, and that the killings suffered on the Palestinian side should also be felt on the Israeli side. From these two examples, you can seen the mood in the West Bank and Gaza is not pro-talks. Arafat would face difficulties if he tried to make a deal now. After the meeting with Ben Ami, I asked a senior Palestinian official what had happened there. He told me, off the record, that he was ashamed. Why? 'Because,' he said, 'the Israelis are destroying my people...