Eight days after polls have closed, America is no closer to finding a President-elect than it was last month.

After a flurry of court rulings, manual recounts continue in Florida, but it remains for the courts to decide whether revised numbers will be accepted. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris said she would not consider recounts certified after 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Vice President Al Gore '69 offered a compromise to Republicans last night, which they refused. If the Republicans accepted the hand recount in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties, he would accept the results without any legal challenges he said.

Or, Gore would accept a complete hand recount of the entire state.

Texas Gov. George W. Bush refused both proposals, calling the recounts now underway in Democratic countries "neither fair or accurate."

Hand recounts are "arbitrary and chaotic" and should not be included in any final count, he said.

Meanwhile, the wheels of justice continue to turn in state and federal courts.

Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Jorge Labarga ruled yesterday morning that the county can decide for itself whether "dimpled chad"--a ballot on which the punchcard was not perforated--counts. He set a 9:30 a.m. Friday hearing for demands by some voters to hold a new election in Palm Beach County.