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...Middle East by a fear of offending our neighbors. This viewpoint has a certain validity; in recent years, concern about speech codes and a general trend towards "political correctness" has led to increased sensitivity, and some would argue censorship, on campus. Reduced to its essence, however, this argument seems more of a cop-out and less of an actual explanation as to why public dialogue about the Middle East situation is absent on the average undergraduate's radar screen...
...over the top, and both, he suspected, would be unacceptable to the Bush camp, who had spent the last five days insisting that hand counts were less accurate than machine counts. And Proposal 2 not only has an appealing air of fairness but takes the Republicans' potent "cherry-picking" argument off the table...
...getting rejected by the courts works pretty well for the Bush p.r. effort. Bush surrogate-in-chief James Baker emerged at 4:20 Wednesday afternoon to take back the "speedy end to all this" mantle from the Democrats, and made the rather logical argument that if Democrats wanted to hand-count those ballots so badly - in selected Democratic-leaning counties, mind you - why haven't they started yet? The Bushies tried to stop them once in federal court, and lost. They tried to stop them in the state Supreme Court, and lost. Volusia County briskly hand-counted all its votes...
...that they've already been counted not once but twice, the Gore stance that one more, by hand, ought to do it. With Broward County and Palm Beach County waiting for the go-ahead in counts that Gore camper David Boies said "would only take a week," the Democrat argument is now, "why don't we just get started...
...although this election's jaw-droppingly close margin seems to be a particularly compelling argument for excluding Ellis, Gottlieb argues it doesn't really make any difference. "Even if this had been a landslide, you don't have a candidate's relative reporting on an election." Interestingly, according to Tuesday's Washington Post, Ellis himself seemed to agree just last year, when he resigned from his position as a political reporter at the Boston Globe. "I am loyal to my cousin.... I put that loyalty ahead of my loyalty to anyone else outside my immediate family. That being the case...