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...thousands." At least 2 million bought Jakes' book Woman, Thou Art Loosed. Jakes, a regular on two TV networks (TBN and BET), has generated a stream of other novel gambits. He has cut a Grammy-nominated gospel album, beamed his sermons by satellite into prisons in 15 states and built a $32 million megachurch in a depressed part of Dallas. Al Gore, Pat Robertson and Coretta Scott King are among his fans. George W. Bush calls Jakes' social programs models for a church-state partnership...
...Chief Justice Rehnquist is considered a long shot for the Democrats, but he is a staunch supporter of state autonomy - a cause generally championed by conservatives - which could bode well for upholding the Florida Supreme Court's decision. If Gore lawyer David Boies can hammer home a states' rights argument, the Chief Justice could conceivably abandon his previous vote. Another consideration for Rehnquist: This decision will likely define his term as Chief Justice. The political considerations are staggering; no Court has ever played such an active role in determining the presidency before, so Rehnquist in particular may exercise extra caution...
...subject of citizens being sore with one another, my mind has wandered to 16th-century France. There, for nearly 50 years, French Catholics and French Protestants attacked one another with conscienceless enthusiasm. The to and fro of the Gore and Bush camps, the postmodernist recounts of the Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian tit for tat that went...
...They'll tell canvassing boards to use the tough-but-fair "intent of the voter" standard; no counting dimples, unless there's a pattern of dimples. They'll let the Florida legislature know that Dec. 12 is no "checkered flag," as state Senate leader John McKay put it last week, and that waiting until, say, the 17th...
...year: How can an individual discern the elusive "intent of the voter," which the Florida legislature has established as its primary standard for counting votes? Justice Ginsburg wanted to know how Olson, who has argued that the Florida Supreme Court has consistently intruded on the jurisdiction of the state legislature during this contest, would react to new, clearer standards. "You've dismissed 'intent of the voter' as too vague a standard," she said. "But at least that came from the legislature. And if something were added to that, wouldn't you be arguing more vociferously against changing something from...