Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This election will be remembered as the only presidential contest that has been essentially decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, an unfortunate end to this turbulent process. The Florida Supreme Court's decision should have stood; it alone is the highest judge of Florida's state laws. The U.S. Supreme Court, by intervening in this issue when it clearly could not come up with a convincing, one-sided decision, has not upheld its duty to impartially enforce the law. By the admission of the dissenting justices, the court may have permanently damaged its credibility as a nonpartisan institution...
...travesties of this election drama will not quickly leave the collective American consciousness. Serious doubts over Bush's legitimacy, the impartiality of the Supreme Court and the basic functioning of our democratic process have been raised. They will not fade easily. But the one glimmer of hope that we can garner from the ebbing chaos is that these lingering questions should serve in the long run to improve our democracy and the functioning of the American government...
...that sense, their very presence is an acknowledgment of the failure of the Oslo peace process and its mechanisms. Although Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met U.S. envoy Dennis Ross in Morocco overnight, the idea that Israelis and Palestinians will rush to conclude a deal before President Clinton leaves office on January 20, and before Israel goes to the polls the following month, may be little more than wishful thinking...
...want to be George Mitchell? Having spent the best part of half a decade patiently cobbling together a Northern Ireland peace treaty that has never moved far from the verge of collapse, he now has the thankless task of picking up the pieces of the failed Middle East peace process. The former U.S. senator is heading a commission of European heavyweights charged with investigating the root causes of the current violence in the West Bank and Gaza, and recommending remedies. The urgency, and complexity, of their task was underlined Wednesday when four Palestinian policemen died in a predawn shootout with...
...maintain a workable majority government (as Barak did). Now, Netanyahu looks set to return to the same booby-trapped office. But even having to govern via a traditionally fractious Israeli coalition government won't stop Netanyahu from keeping his foot firmly jammed on the brake of the peace process. Or at least, proceeding only in Bibi steps...