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Zanotelli compares Harvard to the nation in its chain of command...
...Supreme Court surprised just about every legal scholar on the planet and said it would hear the Bush petition that these ongoing recounts were unconstitutional. The search for wise elders with a good sense of direction had so far been in vain; judges farther down the food chain had had their fairness challenged, even as they ruled for the Democrats one day, the Republicans the next. Maybe the nation's highest court would be able to guide us home. "The Supreme Court is the only decent way out," said a Democrat who has worked for three Presidents in as many...
First, you need rules. "No flaming" is a good one. We had no rules, so it was hard to cry foul when the discussion degenerated, as online talk is apt to do. One brother kept forwarding dirty jokes and chain letters. Others traded barbs ("You are an Ivy League idiot") and drivel ("How was David Letterman? I only saw second half...
...could, that is, if a very specific chain of events comes to pass. And this is where things get ultra-complicated: If the recount leaves Gore the winner, could the Florida legislature still override the recount tally and name their own Bush-friendly slate of electors? According to Robert Bennett, constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, the answer to that question depends on one's interpretation of a specific statute, which holds that the legislature can become involved only if there is a "failure of the choice process." If one defines Election Day as the "choice process," the legislature...
...idea of an American chain restaurant trying to position itself as the official sandwich of an anti-U.S. trade crusade may seem somewhat treasonable, but the logic of globalization suggests that within a generation, corporations and products may lose their "national" identity. Nobody in Europe thinks of Fords as American cars, quite simply because they've been made in local plants, according to designs tailored for European markets, for more than half a century. And if all goes according to plan, 10 or 20 years from now an anti-American mob may charge right by a McDonald's without...