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India is attempting to duplicate the Warana experiment in other parts of the country, if its notoriously inefficient bureaucracy allows this. Nearly two years after the project was launched at Warana, for example, the state government has yet to make digital copies of the region's land records, an essential step for simplifying land transactions and revenue collection...
George W. Bush surprised more than a few pundits Sunday night by making what amounted to a 19-day-old acceptance speech after Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris certified his 537-vote victory in Florida. But look at his choices in this post-election Mr. President pageant: spend the next five days as a lowly candidate or make them work for you as a putative president-elect, intent on beginning the delicate work of reuniting a divided nation...
...tricky posture. Monday, the Bush camp was denied the use of the official White House transition office and the $5.3 million that comes with the keys, and was forced to make noises about opening one of their own. Word was out that Colin Powell, Bush's presumptive secretary of state, felt it was too early for his name to be added to the transition list that now includes Dick Cheney as head of the transition and Andy Card as chief of staff. But like the upcoming Supreme Court hearing that Bush asked for and is now pretending to have forgotten...
...presidential morass has reached a point where it's not only trying our patience but also testing our capacity to grasp just what's going on. So with that in mind, TIME.com has produced this handy primer, keeping pace with the legal proceedings in the Sunshine State and beyond...
...SCOTUS "vacated" the Florida Supreme Court's decision to extend the state's certification deadline, essentially asking the lower court Justices to clarify their opinion and the reasoning leading up to it. The unsigned brief was less decisive than a traditional ruling but spoke volumes to the Florida Supreme Court judges, who will now decide whether to take the case up again and resubmit an opinion. In the meantime, if the SCOTUS decision stands, George W. Bush's lead reverts to the 900+ vote figure he enjoyed prior to the certification deadline extension...