Word: weeks
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...Democrats last week called for a federal probe of the incident. Sources close to Democratic Miami-Dade mayor Alex Penelas tell TIME that a GOP intermediary, Miami political consultant Herman Echevarria - at the behest of state Republican leaders - tried to approach Penelas Wednesday morning to see if the mayor "might talk" to the canvassing board. The sources say Penelas preferred to stay out of it. (Dade elections supervisor David Leahy, a board member, also works for Penelas.) Both Echevarria and Florida GOP chairman Al Cardenas deny such contact. But Penelas, a Cuban American, is seen as vulnerable by GOP leaders...
...some of its magic power to conjure a president, because by that time both sides had loosed upon the world armies that were hard to call back. It was eye for an eye, lawsuit for lawsuit; the candidates were fighting on every front because at different times during the week each found his back against the wall. Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill...
...Next week belongs to the lawyers, with Gore still trying to hold onto Miami-Dade and Bush still hoping Friday will see the Supremes turn back the clock to November 14. But Sunday is a politicians' day, with nothing stopping Katherine Harris from standing up at 5 p.m. and announcing a winner of the numbers war on the ground. A war that now won't settle much except giving America's cable-news hounds a new number to put a question mark after...
...Whatever number they wind up with may not be good enough for Al Gore. David Boies, the veep's head lawyer and best spinner, says he'll get up early on Monday morning and add Palm Beach to next week's Miami-Dade fight - because he doesn't like the way the dimpled chads are being treated by the county's canvassing board. (They're being counted, but only if the voter poked some other dimples...
...their voice might be loud enough to force one of these guys to the sidelines. But the presidency is still an elected office, and both men will want the public's blessing too, no matter how badly those voters botched the job the first time around. And in a week, America will get to mull the same choice their highest court has: Lawyers or politicians...