Word: third
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Defensive breakdowns and an inability to stick to the game plan in the third period handed Harvard a 5-3 loss against Vermont in the home opener...
...earth that transfers power peacefully. That meant Gore is taking a crowbar to that tradition; how much damage are people prepared to tolerate? Baker said he was prepared to wait for the absentee ballots, all due by this Friday, but drew a line at the prospect of a third count, by hand this time, of the Florida ballots...
...second was the public relations war: stoke the anger of African Americans and Jews, for whom disfranchisement strikes a deep chord, throw Austin off balance, keep that transition from getting organized. All this had useful downstream benefits for the Democrats, even if they don't ultimately prevail. The third track was to figure out the legal strategy while the first two tracks bought them time to mull it over...
...electoral college, a last-minute addition to the Constitution, distorts the popular vote. It is impossible to explain to foreigners. Even most Americans don't understand it. It produced its first election crisis in our very third presidential election 200 years ago. As originally formulated, the electors were not to vote separately for president and vice president. The presidency went to the electoral-vote winner, the vice presidency to the runner-up. It was thus conceivable that a vice-presidential nominee could be elected president...
...Bush is? I instinctively think so, but not, I think, because my judgment is partisan. (Seeing that the race in New York, where I vote, was going to Gore by a huge margin, I did not waste my vote on either Bush or Gore, but gave it to a third party candidate, as a dissenting gesture that now, of course, looks lame). I doubt that if George W. Bush sat down to play a game of seven-card stud, deuces wild, he would, after the cards were dealt, bring in lawyers to claim that treys and one-eyed jacks were...