Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard turned the ball over seven times, four of which occurred in the fourth quarter. Harvard committed five turnovers last week in a 36-35 loss at Penn, giving the team 12 in its last two games. This is a problem area where Harvard will need to improve for next season...
...most striking thing about the legal battles in Florida is just how quickly the briefs are flying. By late last week, 24-hour news channels were announcing new filings and rulings at the same breathless clip they were calling states for Bush and Gore on election night. A Palm Beach County judge rules that local officials have the option of counting dimpled chads. A Broward County judge rules the same. A suit is filed challenging absentee ballots in Seminole. "I used to leave the house to pick up the newspaper," says Bush lawyer Barry Richard. "Now I leave to pick...
...forget the attorneys! Lawyers who have been retained by local government officials are also billing right to the counties, while lawyers for the Bush and Gore camps are funded via campaign coffers. Both Bush and Gore hit the fund-raising circuits with renewed vengeance this past week, trying to collect enough money to cover the rising tide of legal and personnel expenses down in Florida...
...door to next week is wide open. While polls are starting to show public impatience, they also say a majority is still behind hand counts in principle. Certainly Gore's case for including them is a lot easier to make with the highest court in Florida backing him up (so far). And meanwhile the counts go on, in Broward County and Palm Beach County, with the numbers slowly trickling into Gore's column. Miami-Dade, under heavy Democratic pressure, on Friday decided to join them and hold what could be a million ballots up to the light...
...statistically probable comes to pass, and the hand counts go on over Bush's now next-stop-SCOTUS objections, some day next week Palm Beach, or Broward, or Miami-Dade will find enough lost votes to put Al Gore over the top in Florida, and over the top in the election...