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That's why it's so urgent to know who that third Cabinet choice might be. Last week sources involved in the transition floated the name of William Gray, a Democratic former Congressman from Philadelphia who now heads the United Negro College Fund, as a possible Secretary of Education. One big reason: the fund has been a favorite Bush-family charity since the days of W.'s grandfather Prescott. But when I talked to Gray last week, he made it clear that he's not interested. He is opposed to key elements of Bush's education-reform proposals, especially vouchers...
...political life so that his brother can survive. It wasn't supposed to come to this. Seeing peril in leading George W.'s postelection fight, Jeb recused himself, leaving the heavy lifting to his secretary of state, Katherine Harris, who relished the task and delivered the goods. But last week Jeb emerged from his self-imposed exile to comment on the effort by house speaker Tom Feeney, his friend and former running mate, to summon the legislature into special session, perhaps as early as Wednesday, to name pro-Bush electors. There may be no need to do that, but with...
...week ago, Leon County circuit court judge N. Sanders Sauls was going about his business, hearing domestic-violence cases in nearby Wakulla County, when a computer randomly assigned him a colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a resume to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets...
...recessed for the day. He will rule whether Gore would have won Florida's coveted electoral votes if 14,000 undervoted ballots had been properly counted by hand. But the thought of being the one who actually does the counting caused the judge to sigh during a hearing last week. "Do you have a magnifying glass?" he quipped. "I need stronger glasses." Says Richard McFarlain, former general counsel for the Florida Republican Party: "He's a lot of fun to be around. But when you're in court with him, let him crack the first joke...
...into Haiti's police and judiciary. But today Haiti is as lawless as it is destitute. A breakdown in America's alliance with Aristide, who left office in 1996, helped create the kind of power vacuum drug lords love to fill. Now, after easily winning the presidency again last week, can Aristide do much about the problem...