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Article: A new year; After the deluge, mulling democracy.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- January 7, 2001
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So how does it feel - this still-new year called '01? Rather like the year before? No surprise there, for that's life - one year heaped upon another, until what was new has grown old. The strange becomes ordinary; dimpled chads give way to new fads. Even so, the coming of each new year stirs up wild hopes: This one will be different, we say. This year, we'll do it right.
Well, let's hope so - at least on the democracy front. Y2K wasn't exactly American democracy's finest year. The soap opera called Bush vs. Gore may have been thrilling, but it also was chilling. This presidential election exposed U.S. democracy as creaky and capricious - vulnerable to ...