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...dispute. This could be good news for the Gore campaign. Six of seven Florida Supreme Court justices are Democrats; the other is an independent. Leander J. Shaw Jr., the senior member of the court, is a former public defender; and several others were trial lawyers, a traditionally liberal sector of the bar. Recently, the justices have had tense relations with Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Republicans. In April the court rejected rules he backed to speed up death-penalty appeals. Bush responded by charging the court with engaging in "unnecessary delay and legal gamesmanship" in capital cases...
...declining to point out that the big mess we're now in is a perfect illustration of what he was saying throughout the election campaign--that the government always screws things up. After all, compare the conduct of this election with the way things are done in the private sector. Private corporations hold elections all the time, and they routinely deliver victory to the management's nominees for the board of directors by huge majorities without any fuss. Only an election run by government bureaucrats would be handled so incompetently that it produces a close vote, let alone so irresponsibly...
...private business sector they manage to count the votes without wandering into a jungle of butterfly ballots and dangling chads. Actually, for all we know, they don't even count the votes. But we trust the management to do it right. Or rather, since none of the candidates can claim to be protecting Social Security from any other candidate, we don't much care whether they count the votes right. Trust and indifference amount to the same thing...
...beneficiaries of that backwardness is the U.S., which has attracted top-flight Indian techies and entrepreneurs with minimal effort to feed its hungry high-tech sector. But the Internet has begun to sneak through the barriers India erected against the outside world. Now the largest national pool of engineering talent in the developing world, a good proportion of which speaks English, is able to set up shop at home. Those engineers' underemployed sisters and cousins have proved willing to work cheaply at a new crop of labor-intensive jobs made possible by the distance-bridging technology of the Net. "Finally...
...consulting firm McKinsey & Co. estimates that the number of jobs in India's software and IT-services sector will jump from 280,000 last year to 2.2 million by 2008. "For people who are educated, speak English and have some basic skills," says Salil Parikh, CEO of Ernst & Young's Indian consulting operation, "it will be a great life...