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...Even that last bastion of presumed objectivity, the U.S. Supreme Court, is deeply divided along political lines; six of the bench's nine justices (Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg, Souter, Stevens and Breyer) are solidly committed to ideological positions they are considered extremely unlikely to abandon. That divide was never more clear than on Saturday, when the Court voted 5-4 to stay the Democrats' recount effort in Florida...
...Americans like to think of the third branch of government - especially the highest court in the land - as a bastion against the surgical divide in the country. The voters couldn't decide between Bush and Gore, and Congress is split between Republicans and Democrats, but as we groped for a solution to the election mess, we couldn't help looking to the courts for a wisdom that rises above the nation's two angry political camps...
Despite facing a tough battle in 1994, Kennedy won this election to his seventh term in office overwhelmingly, running against much weaker opponents in a state known nationwide as a bastion of liberalism...
...justness of a nation ought never be determined by the liberties it extends to the vast majority of its citizens, but rather by the rights it is willing to guarantee to its most marginalized minority groups. Judged on these grounds, America is far from the bastion of fairness and equal rights it hypocritically declares itself to be. Two hundred twenty-four years and 42 presidents after our nation first proclaimed its independence from British tyranny and oppression, politicians are still fervently proclaiming that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." And, yet, they...
Harvard won't be the first to have granted a female the presidential post; among others, Nannerl Keohane assumed the position at Duke University in 1993 and Judith Rodin has been president at the University of Pennsylvania since the same year. But Harvard has historically been a bastion of WASP gentility--and traces of that aristocratic outlook still exist today. The maids' quarters may now house students, but the male-only final clubs continue to thrive, and those with a Harvard legacy in their family are unjustifiably given preferential treatment in the admissions process. The presidential search is a fortuitous...