Word: ways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson dominated the 60-meter hurdles, taking all four spots, with freshman Michael Whalen leading the way...
...been in vain; judges farther down the food chain had had their fairness challenged, even as they ruled for the Democrats one day, the Republicans the next. Maybe the nation's highest court would be able to guide us home. "The Supreme Court is the only decent way out," said a Democrat who has worked for three Presidents in as many decades. "That would at least give the next President some legitimacy...
...that deadline out and making a new one all its own. That wasn't interpreting the law, it was inventing it. "Make no mistake," Bush said the next morning. "The court rewrote the laws. It changed the rules, and it did so after the election was over." The only way to respond, Bush's aides agreed, was to launch an all-out war on the Florida Supreme Court. "We had to send a clear message that we saw the ruling as completely illegitimate," insisted a senior aide. "We couldn't mince words." Concerns about attacking the legitimacy of an institution...
...friendly to Gore. While G.O.P. lawmakers were united behind Bush, knowing that their own fortunes depended on having a Republican President to help get anything done, many Democrats privately thought they would be better off if Gore lost. Even some liberal Democrats thought Bush might in some ways be easier to work with in the White House, since he would have a powerful incentive to reach out to them and make peace. Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear of a backlash in the 2002 elections, party activists are so strongly behind Gore...
Republicans, not usually known for takin' it to the streets, got what they wanted. Just two hours after a near riot outside the counting room, the Miami-Dade canvassing board voted to shut down the count. Yet the way the Republicans went after it, by intimidating the three-member board or by providing the excuse it was looking for, gave Americans the first TV view of strong-arm tactics in what was supposed to be a showcase of democracy in action. If Jesse Jackson can do it, the Republicans argued, so can we. But the G.O.P.'s march turned into...