Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...seventh pick Anne Makinen, the Notre Dame star who scored the game-winner in the Irish's 2-0 Sweet 16 win over Harvard in November. The 2000 Crimson finished the season ranked 18th in the nation in the final soccer coaches' association poll, which came out last week...
...least whenever elections are as close as this one. But there was a moment last week when nine lawyers, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, brightened rather than blanched American democracy, asking us to look beyond the merely dimpled. Friday was a day unlike any other since the election--unlike the past month of candidates with their dueling speeches and seas of American flags, of squawking pundits on the cable channels, certainly unlike the silly spectacle of the previous day, when news choppers chased a Ryder truck full of ballots as it trundled up a highway for eight hours...
Earlier last week Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee, had phoned chairman Orrin Hatch to ask if he would walk with Leahy to the Supreme Court hearing. The Senators felt it was important to stage a bipartisan show of support for the American judiciary, which has taken a drubbing since the Florida Supreme Court ruled to extend secretary of state Katherine Harris' certification deadline. Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show...
...justices could rule early this week, given the speed with which the court has already moved on this case. (The record time in recent years is a four-day turnaround from oral arguments to ruling in the 1971 Pentagon-papers case.) Judicial experts offer three scenarios...
Politically, however, a Bush win would be a stunning public relations defeat for Gore, one that could erode his support in the nation and in Washington. Last week moderate Senate Democrats said they would consider the election finished if the high court rules against Gore. "Nobody has the stomach for this stretching beyond early December," says a senior aide to one Democratic Senator. Even Gore's campaign aides see an unfavorable ruling as a death blow. "They could lock it up for Bush," says a longtime adviser. "For Gore, they could let him live, but they can't lock...