Word: though
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...indiscriminately." Truth be told, Gibson enjoys the perception, and there seems to be an implicit agreement between him and his audience. All parties concerned know he's not as bad as he says he is. He does admit that he was drunk when he made the offending antigay remark, though he has since kicked alcohol and, in the course of recovery, "cooled down a bit," he says. "I was the kind of guy who could strangle an inanimate object. I was a road-rage kind of guy." Asked if his views on abortion and divorce have softened, he says...
...Mortenson, though, cites U.S. Census measures indicating that the gap cuts across racial and income groups. Moreover, he and others argue, boys as a group trail girls at many stages of K-12 achievement: boys tend to earn lower grades and are less likely to earn a high school diploma. They score marginally higher on the SAT, but only 65% of boys who apply are admitted to college, vs. 69% of girls...
...will be baying with renewed ardor for Gore's head. A 5-4 decision, and it's pretty much just another partisan shouting match, albeit with both sides striving for the appropriate hushed tones when speaking of the Court itself. Make it 6-3 or 7-2 or more, though, and the buzzword on cable-news correspondents' lips will be "supermajority." And then it starts to echo...
...situation or strategy, it just forces him to refile his contest under different terms. But it could invalidate Gore himself. What filters down to the mostly-just-disgusted-by-now public will be that Bush went to the Supreme Court to stop manual recounts, and he won. And Gore, though he didn't go looking for a fight, lost. Big time...
...Some of those voters sued, seeking a revote or statistical adjustment, and the issue became the political noisemaker of the past three weeks while the rest of the Bush-Gore war slogged though one court or another. In his first nationally televised "offer" to Bush, Gore took the issue off the table, but Bush turned up his nose. And the issue continued to percolate in the courts, first in Palm Beach - where five judges recused themselves from the case - then in Leon County, finally landing in the Florida Supreme Court. Ticking, ticking, ticking, ready to blow...