Word: righting
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Nowak drove hard to the boards behind the net and battled two B.C. defensemen for control of the puck. He emerged to Eagles' goaltender Scott Clemmensen's right and slid a pass to Bala on the doorstep. In a textbook play, Bala backhanded the shot past Clemmensen for a 2-1 lead at 10:47 of the third...
...Bush has to rely on the other large feeling among Americans, that maybe we should stop looking. "While our system is not perfect," he said conciliatorily, "it is fundamentally strong." Translation: You've got a president right here, all ready to start uniting this great land. Why wait...
...democracy in action. If Jesse Jackson can do it, the Republicans argued, so can we. But the GOP's march turned into a mob. The screaming, the pounding on doors and the alleged physical assaults on Democrats suddenly made a bemused public queasy. "I'm all for anyone's right to protest," says Miami-Dade Democratic chairman Joe Geller, who had to have a police escort. "These were Brownshirt tactics." It was the Dade vote counters, however, who provoked the Republican machine. Seemingly oblivious to GOP anger over the Florida Supreme Court ruling to allow manual recounts, the canvassing board...
...code of conduct in a democracy - the assumption of good faith that allows politicians to quarrel one day and compromise the next - was sacrificed to the reality that only one of these men can be president, that there is no middle ground. Each man was so sure he was right that he had a duty to try to win at all costs. And so the costs kept rising...
...sooner had Gore won the right to a recount than the Republican counteroffensive began - even though many states, including Texas, consider hand counts to be reliable. The judges who endorsed the recounts were denounced as biased; the exhausted counters were accused of attempting an in-broad-daylight theft of the presidency - even though Palm Beach County turned up far fewer extra Gore votes than anyone expected because of their stricter rules about counting dimpled ballots. Democrats were also stunned by Nassau County, a GOP stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than...