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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Judge Clark finds for the Democrats, her decision could be appealed to the state supreme court, which hinted Friday about how it might respond. In an opinion denying a Palm Beach revote request, the court said a ballot must be "in substantial noncompliance" to justify an extreme remedy...
...politicians can see them from Washington. They just can't do much about the situation. When the Americans ousted Haiti's brutal military regime in 1994, they aimed to bring order and normality to the impoverished Caribbean state. U.S. peacekeeping forces restored Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the presidency to which he had been freely elected in 1990. They sank almost $100 million into Haiti's police and judiciary. But today Haiti is as lawless as it is destitute. A breakdown in America's alliance with Aristide, who left office in 1996, helped create the kind of power vacuum drug lords...
...arrival, hoping to grab some cocaine they can sell back in their shantytowns--at cut-rate prices that would give a drug lord heart failure. European tourists who recently came ashore in sailboats were beaten by mobs because their vessels contained no dope. Diplomats already call Haiti a failed state. But scenes like these are earning the country the brand of something worse: a narco state...
...Texas a 1985 statute allows wrongly imprisoned people to collect as much as $25,000 in compensation for pain and suffering. That works out to slightly less than $6 a day for the 12 years Kevin Byrd spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The state agreed to pay it in May 1999, but Byrd has yet to see any money. In Texas, officials in the Attorney General's office say the state legislature needs to meet in order to appropriate funds to pay Byrd--but it still hasn't done so. State senator Rodney Ellis plans...
Take DeLong's experience, multiply it a few thousand times in schools across the state, and it isn't surprising that at her campus this year, the freshman class is nearly 61% female. In a freshman English tutorial, small clusters of men sit quietly as women dominate class discussions. But outside class, the mood on campus is distinctly male friendly. Tyler Willingham, social chair of the Sigma Nu fraternity, observes that at parties, even guys without dates can choose from "many beautiful women...