Word: ways
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...Lott will have to step aside during that time. So Daschle's staff is now scrambling to decide what it will do during the Democrats' 17-day reign. They've ruled out firing the thousands of Republican staffers that the majority gets to hire. That's not the way to start out a friendly working relationship with the other party, and Lott would just rehire the aides when he was back in harness on Jan. 20. But Daschle will run floor proceedings and he may name Democratic senators as committee chairmen during those 17 days, say his aides. "The precedent...
...Court is also likely to struggle for some sort of unified voice in a case this important. The easiest way to do that would probably be to wash their hands of the case. If one end of the Court's philosophical spectrum can't win over the other, or at least the Kennedy-O'Connor middle, they may decide that any split decision - and the resultant politicization of America's highest arbiters - would be the worst outcome...
About half way into the court proceeding, civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton led separate processions down the street, chanting "Gore Got More, Gore Got More." As they passed by the Bush camp, the crowd broke into a chant: "President Bush, President Bush." From a lone Gore supporter elbowing his way through the crowd: "Yeah...
...More importantly, perhaps, Fox's election victory gave Mexicans a first taste of the power of democracy to change the way they're governed, and that has to have struck fear into the PRI pooh-bahs. Fox is starting out with a 70 percent approval rating, and that may make many PRI officials more inclined to cut deals with him than to tempt the ire of the electorate by openly opposing...
...party government, and prosecution may have become inevitable once the Supreme Court in August stripped Pinochet of his immunity. After all, the country is now a stable democracy and getting on rather nicely without the general, and the military is unlikely to risk instability by going out of its way to protect Pinochet from prosecution. All the general may have going for him now is the fact that he's 84 years old and his faculties are failing...