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...Bush asks the state circuit court for an injunction to stop the hand count in Broward County. Judge Miller rejects this request...
...Republicans in Broward County file suit in state circuit court to stop the county's hand counts. Lawyers subpoena Broward's 3-member canvassing board...
...State circuit court rejects the Republican attempt to stop the Broward County hand count...
...waited until the canvassing board reconvened in front of live TV cameras to make her move. She called quickly for a vote, cutting off debate. When Charles Burton, the county judge who chairs the board, suggested they wait for legal opinions from secretary of state Katherine Harris, Roberts said, "I'm not asking for an opinion, I'm asking for a vote." Burton later accused Roberts of "bushwhacking" him. He'd thought they were on friendly terms, having taken smoking breaks with Roberts during their marathon counting sessions...
...satellite TV came to the Warana sugarcane-growing region of Maharashtra state, some 250 miles southeast of Bombay, and the ground started moving under the farming village of Pokhale. "Even one-year-olds started shaking their hips like those MTV girls," says farmer Shantappa Ghewari. More than a year later, another magical box was installed in the village, and Pokhale became one of 70 villages in the region to take part in the "Wired Village Warana," a $600,000 information-technology project initiated by the federal government. All the villages in the area have computer kiosks that are linked...