Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...What about Americans coming of age right now? How are they being formed by the sunny affluence (and undercurrent jitters) of the fin de Clinton? Is the election of 2000 teaching them anything...
...opinion was read, Boies had positioned himself outside the courtroom, promising an appeal and shaking a verbal fist in Sauls' direction. "This ruling comes without the judge having reviewed one ballot," he said indignantly. "We have said from the beginning of all this that we believe citizens have a right to see their votes counted," he proclaimed...
...prepared to act" and order up a special session to mull naming a slate of electors if Al Gore's contest runs long in the courts. His counterpart, Senate President John McKay, says "the Senate will not be rushed to judgment... We have only one chance to get things right...
...boots. Known as a sharp-witted, backslapping arch-conservative - think Tom DeLay with a winning personality - he's a hard charger who only snickers when he gets blasted in the papers. He was also Jeb Bush's running mate in his failed 1994 gubernatorial race - and his hard-right ideology was widely implicated in the loss. But if Feeney is afraid of playing the same p.r. albatross to Jeb's brother, he doesn...
...danger for Barak, of course, goes beyond the fact that Israelis are uncomfortable with the very idea of subjecting the conduct of their security forces to foreign scrutiny. Inquiries by such respected human rights agencies as Amnesty International and the U.N. Commission on Human Rights have harshly criticized Israel for responding with excessive brutality to the Palestinian uprising, and Senator Mitchell's inquiry when it delivers its report in March may create pressure for Washington to be more critical than it has been until now of the conduct of its Israeli ally. That could easily have the effect of driving...