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...preseason loss to the Dutch national team. Lee had six points, seven rebounds and four assists in 20 minutes, and she often took the initiative to push the ball up the floor. Sophomore Bree Kelley, a 6' guard who handled the ball some last year, will likely shift to a more natural shooting guard or small forward position...
...Democratic candidate, Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York, won the popular vote. It appeared he had won the electoral vote too. But Southern states were still under military occupation, and electoral boards in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina rapidly disqualified Democratic ballots in an effort to shift the electoral college majority to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes of Ohio. In 1876 as in 2000, both parties sent into Florida a posse of top lawyers and other notables. Among the Hayes advocates was General Lew Wallace, the author...
...electoral college: award a bonus of 102 electoral votes, two for each state and for the District of Columbia, to the winner of the popular vote. Under this reform, there would remain a temptation to bring moral pressure on individual electors to reject the decisions of their states and shift their votes to the popular-vote winners. This invokes the myth that the founding fathers expected the electors to be free agents. The evidence is that the founders fully expected the electoral college to execute the popular will in each state. And the problem of the "faithless elector" can easily...
What if we lost Florida? I mean physically lost the state? Let's say this Sunday, a freakish seismic shift rips Florida from its moorings, sending it (and the Bush-Gore legal teams), floating off into the Atlantic. Then what happens...
Does the rocket attack that killed a Bethlehem Fatah militia leader in his car mark a tactical shift by the Israeli forces in the West Bank...