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...confidence in Cheney and the sheer breadth of his running mate's experience help ensure that Cheney would have a leading role in everything from staffing and running the White House and federal agencies to directing foreign and defense policy to negotiating with Congress. And the 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate would turn the Vice President's largely ceremonial role as president of the upper chamber into something far more serious, summoning Cheney to Capitol Hill for every important vote in case he's needed to break a tie. Last week even Bush's syntax...
...then, but may yet turn out to be right. If Gore wins the contest, and the legislature has picked its own electors, then Congress, on Jan. 5, will have to choose whether Gore's or the legislature's electors will be seated. But if the two houses of Congress split on that (probably, with a Republican House and a Democratic Senate), the decision will go back to the chief executive of the state. Jeb Bush will then become the first state executive to name a slate of electors to defeat the popular vote, the first to have the choice...
...Tang is a conglomeration of rappers that includes RZA (the mastermind and main producer), Method Man (the star M.C.), Masta Killa, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard. A 10th rapper, Cappadonna, is regarded as an honorary member. While other groups rage and split and fall apart when members look to release solo work, Wu-Tang's boundaries are loose. All the members have authored solo albums at one time or another. RZA, for his part, composed the music for the 1999 Jim Jarmusch film Ghost...
...Since the Court granted George W. Bush his stay by split decision Saturday, the race has been on to daub the nine Justices with the same red and blue blood as the rest of us, with Scalia and Breyer holding up the battle flags. When Scalia stepped out front to say the words Gore didn't want to hear - "a majority of the court... believe that the petitioner has a substantial probability of success," some legal experts called it the understatement of the year. On Monday, the highest court in the land was going to call the game...
...Justices were reading the newspapers this weekend, they know that if the 5-4 split holds they'll be painted red and blue like everybody else, and the nation expects the Supreme Court to blanch at that political abyss. Scalia, along with his silent partner Clarence Thomas, has plenty of experience playing the role of Public Enemy No. 1 with half the nation. With a presidential election on the line and historians expecting something grand, he's likely to want to avoid sitting in that box this time around. So don't be surprised if he and Rehnquist, holding...