Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Saturday, by a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the stay George W. Bush had asked for 18 hours before, putting a halt to a rickety process of sorting and counting some 44,000 undervotes just as it was getting under way. Hearings have been scheduled for Monday morning at 11 (briefs were handed over Sunday at 4 p.m.), and as always it is anybody's guess in this unprecedented non-election what exactly the Court has on its mind. But for now, here are some clues as to what they are thinking...
...Florida Supreme Court but was doing his candidacy "irreparable harm." More ominously for Gore, they may also agree, as Bush's application claimed, that the Florida Supreme Court decision was unconstitutional, that it conflicted with Article II - which says the legislature chooses electors - and that it violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In which case, they'll toss the whole thing out, and go back to the original certification of Bush as the winner...
...play seems to lampoon what everybody already acknowledges to be the worst aspects of the TV genre, inadvertently replicating them in the process. For all the energy of the Adams Pool Theatercast, this gives the production a sense of tiredness and lack of originality. Split Confusion sets out to attack the mediocracy of media but in the end does more to emulate it than undermine...
...feel so lucky, that I had so many opportunities. I don't feel that Hollywood is not giving women a chance. Women have a shorter span of time, but it's really an individual process. Women still have bridges to cross...
...Palestinian intifada, even though they have to varying degrees criticized aspects of Palestinian conduct. And if the Mitchell inquiry endorses that view, it would add weight to Palestinian demands for an international monitoring force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. Mitchell?s centrality to the process may even raise pressure on Washington to endorse some version of that proposal, which is roundly rejected by Israel. The senator's report is expected in March, just in time to land at the top of the pile on the new president's desk...