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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...That's pretty much what the Gore team, led by the rumpled and disarmingly lucid superlawyer David Boies, was asking for. Boies argued that the only discretion Secretary of State Katherine Harris really needs is to make sure her office can muster a final answer in time for Dec. 12. And since her duties are merely a "ministerial act" - a contention the Bush team later appeared to confirm - certainly the hand counts could go on until, say, December 9 or so without serious damage to the rights of the Florida electorate...
...Late Monday, state election officials dismissed Butterworth's plea, saying their refusal to count as many as 1,500 "disqualified" votes - many of which are from military personnel, who tend to vote Republican - is couched in election...
...Until Monday afternoon's announcement, Butterworth, who served as Gore's state chairman, was locked in a battle with Republican officials who argued all military ballots should be counted. It was a battle Butterworth couldn't afford to win. And considering his continued involvement with the vice president's campaign, it's probably safe to assume there's already been some relevant discussion within the Gore camp - perhaps Butterworth was dispatched to test the proverbial waters...
...Gaza attack also highlights the rationale for the unilateral "divorce" option touted by Israeli officials in recent weeks, in which Israel simply withdraws from those parts of the West Bank and Gaza that are difficult to defend, breaking economic ties and giving Arafat a patchwork Palestinian state. For Barak, ultimately, the principle of risking soldiers' lives in order to protect a handful of settlers deep inside hostile territory outside the borders of Israel proper is unappealing, and he's long advocated consolidating settlements in areas adjacent to Israel that can be annexed in order to create new, defensible borders...
...satellite TV came to the Warana sugarcane-growing region of Maharashtra state, some 250 miles southeast of Bombay, and the ground started moving under the farming village of Pokhale. "Even one-year-olds started shaking their hips like those MTV girls," says farmer Shantappa Ghewari. More than a year later, another magical box was installed in the village, and Pokhale became one of 70 villages in the region to take part in the "Wired Village Warana," a $600,000 information-technology project initiated by the federal government. All the villages in the area have computer kiosks that are linked...