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First, political discourse: Turnout was slightly higher this election, which is nice. But presidents don't have too much direct power over our lives now, and we tend to be more concerned with state property taxes than we do with most federal policies. So a 50 percent turnout rate isn't too upsetting...
However, TAs at public universities have long been considered state employees and have been able to unionize since 1969, when the University of Wisconsin-Madison first formed a union...
...News-Washington Post poll found that 60 percent of Americans believe Gore should give up now that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Florida for Texas Gov. George W. Bush on Sunday...
...could, George W. Bush would be spending Tuesday naming senior members of his Cabinet. Here's how it would go: "I am proud to have Colin Powell on board to be my Secretary of State and Condi Rice as my national security adviser." Bush is understandably anxious to make that happen: naming two African Americans among his first two Cabinet officers would certainly ring a much different-sounding starting bell than incoming Republican presidents have rung in the past...
...Nunn into joining his team. It would be something of a mini-coup. Nunn spent 18 years in the Senate and was his party's pivotal player on national security for most of that period. But would Nunn do it? When Clinton came in eight years ago, Nunn wanted State, not Defense. And then he tangled with Clinton over gays and the military, and left the Senate four years later. He's been quite happy in private life. One aide told us he's passed up the Pentagon job once or twice already...