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"Win or lose, he's the same David," Mary Boies says. As much as he loves reaching the right destination, the journey is quite a kick too, especially when the cases he handles provide, as he says, "important issues, complexity and good lawyers on the other side." That's why, near the end of the long, hard weeks of Bush v. Gore, when sleep was a rumor and calm an impossibility, his younger sister Cathie sent this e-mail to Mary: "Tell him to keep enjoying himself."
--With reporting by Mitch Frank/New York