Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore camp's legal interpretation of the ruling - still in the appeals process at the Florida Supreme Court - antitrust vet David Boies told CNN, "We look at it like the judge telling the secretary of state what the right thing to do is, and [saying] 'We assume you're going to do the right thing...
...Gore camp, which got neither what they wanted nor what they expected from Judge Lewis, there's plenty riding on the appeals process. The argument will be the same - that while the law may call for the 5 p.m. deadline, it also says counties have the right to the hand recount. Bush lawyers will argue that Judge Lewis was right - the discretion rests with the secretary of state...
...like [the Florida election] I would be very surprised if you could detect a bias." Jon Mills, interim dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, agrees. "This is not a partisan court," he insists. GOP leaders across the country can only hope he's right...
Last call for saving the planet... The final round of negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol on climate change opened in the Netherlands on Monday, and right now Earth's prospects don't look so good - that is if you believe, unlike would-be president-elect George W. Bush, that there is a scientific link between global warming and carbon gas emissions. The current talks are being held to meet a deadline for finalizing the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrialized nations to dramatically reduce emissions from the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. Kyoto emerged out of concern...
...something people here would welcome at all," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "So when it was announced that Bush had in fact not won, many people were joking that they're messing with the election in America as well, because they're very busy doing that here right now. One supporter of an opposition candidate who was being prevented by police from going to the polls joked that all he wanted to do was go and vote for Bush...