Word: question
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...litigation, Bush mouthpiece Karen Hughes warned that this would be unhealthy for the country. "That's not the way we do things in America," she huffed. Since when? Suing one another is all we do in America. And heaven forbid that someone would look to settle a real legal question before a judge rather than in the court of cable TV, Justices Novak, Press and Matalin presiding. After predicting a Dickensian legal quagmire, the Bush team raced to the courthouse on Friday to try to prevent votes from being counted by hand in four Florida counties, as election authorities...
...Some news veterans blame the blunders on competition. "Making the first call is all a question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors - or at least wouldn't multiply them...
...know how you can call a state that's this close!" Bush media adviser Stu Stevens protested. "It's ridiculous! It's an outrage!" It was Rove's idea to summon the camera pool into the Governor's mansion so Bush could break into the newscasts and question the Florida results himself on network television. "It's going to be a long night," Bush said...
...knows where to take this. A lot of Palestinian leaders and intellectuals are wondering about their exit strategy and about what they hope to get out of the new intifada. Many are saying privately that they don't have an answer when they go to their leaders with this question. They're just hoping to pressure Israel into making the next move. At the beginning, Hussein Sheikh told us it was the 'battle for final status,' saying the uprising was necessary to strengthen the Palestinians' negotiating position. But right now that looks unlikely...
...wouldn't be my ideal of what a school like Harvard should be looking for. ...It's just in the air because of the inevitable question, 'What does...