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...costs a university more to provide financial aid for foreign students because they are not eligible for federal and state aid programs, and they tend to have higher travel expenses...
...Bush's statement was emotionally all "finality" and about holding firm behind a schedule that appeals to America's growing sense of impatience. "This is precisely why the laws of the state of Florida have deadlines for certification of the election vote... The next and final deadline comes Friday at midnight, when overseas absentee ballots must have been received to be counted in Florida. I don't know who these ballots will support and neither does Vice President Gore." Nice bit of suspense, even if Bush has no doubt whatsoever that the absentee ballots will add to his official...
...where will it all end? With increasing frequency, mention is being made of the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will be called upon to sort out the mess. Though there are doubts that the nation's top judges will want to hear what they may consider a state matter (see below), two parallel tracks are making themselves apparent...
...Track Two:In Tallahassee, the Democrats' legal team is currently facing off against Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who has made several key decisions that Gore's supporters say have prevented votes being counted and thus may have hurt the vice president's chances of winning Florida. Thursday, in the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, Democrats are challenging Harris's decision to ignore the manual recount results achieved after the official deadline at 5 p.m. Tuesday (a separate suit from the Palm Beach County decision handed down by the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday...
...which many predict they are likely to do, the case could wind up in Washington, before the Supreme Court. According to Craig Waters, communications director for the Florida Supreme Court, the fate of the case depends on the lawyers' strategies: Although technically the only course of appeal after the state Supreme Court is the United States Supreme Court, in this case it could be argued that federal issues are involved, and an appeal might be successfully pushed into a lower federal appeals court. At that point, of course, it joins the track to the top leading through the federal system...