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More active Houses would greatly improve the lives of Harvard students, but there are currently roadblocks towards building this unity. First, students need to break free from current debate and old excuses. The council's "student services vs. social interaction" is an exhausted argument and an outdated way of thinking that should once and for all be put to rest because it simply does not fully address student needs. Furthermore, despite having occurred over seven years ago, students should move beyond the idea that "randomization" permanently destroyed the identities of the Houses...
Thursday morning, in his oral argument before Florida's Supreme Court Justices, Gore lawyer David Boies looked like a man who has reached the end of a very long road...
...Florida Justices, who ruled unanimously in Gore's favor in their last decision, in which they extended the Florida certification deadline, were relentless in their questioning, bringing Bush lawyer Barry Richard to a near-shout of frustration at one point during his argument. But there was also palpable sense of caution, even as the Justices peppered the attorneys - at the beginning of the session, Chief Justice Wells asked each attorney to explain why the contest case rested in the court's jurisdiction at all. After Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed the recount deadline decision back to Florida...
...Baker, a lawyer at the white-shoe Boston firm Hill and Barlow, laid out the Democrats' legal argument. The night of the election, he was in the Nashville "boiler room," as he called it, watching exit polls and coordinating with field operations in states...
...Basically, they didn't want to work Thanksgiving Day," is how Sasso sums up that argument...