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Those who oppose adding House library books to HOLLIS generally cite the current popularity of libraries qua living rooms; students use the Dunster library, Bernstein said, "not just to study but to be among their fellow House members and enjoy its peaceful atmosphere." But questions of atmosphere, circulation and House privacy can be addressed House by House; the benefits of bringing reserve reading to the Houses and enlivening the dusty House stacks seems the first task. If our hero--or someone like her--is reading, she should tell her House Masters or HoCo to voice these concerns and work...
Barkley did not cite a particular reason for not contacting the search committee...
...Florida Supreme Court ordered Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris to accept manual recounts, but declined to give local boards guidance on chads. The court did, however, approvingly cite a 1990 ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court: "Where the intention of the voter can be ascertained with reasonable certainty from his ballot, that intention will be given effect even though the ballot is not strictly in conformity with the law." The Illinois high court examined 27 ballots with dimpled chads and held that eight of them were valid votes--enough to decide that election...
...Bush camp argued in federal court that ordering manual recounts in four counties selected by the Gore campaign denies equal protection of the law to voters in counties where no recounts have been ordered. In their briefs, the Republicans cite one-person, one-vote cases like Baker v. Carr, which struck down apportionment schemes that gave heavily populated urban districts the same representation as less populated rural ones. Here the Republicans flip the doctrine, saying that by ordering recounts in populous counties, the Gore campaign is depriving less populated counties of their right to equal representation...
...relative unknowns: the man who invented refrigerated trucks, the woman who developed a machine for hair permanents or the man who patented the automatic traffic signal. Officials from the Patent Office, which reports that only 6% of patent applications come from blacks, hail Johnson as a role model and cite his Super Soaker to capture the imagination of schoolchildren...