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While some students criticized "University-imposed diversity" in the form of randomization and spoke of the powerful factors working in favor of creating bonds based on culture, others welcomed randomization as an opportunity to step out of comfort zones...
Sergio J. Campos '00, president of RAZA during the grape dispute said he took comfort in knowing students were concerned with worker conditions in California, though the campus decision showed otherwise...
Americans can take some comfort from the knowledge that most other advanced nations have voting methods at least as shopworn as ours. All of Japan uses paper ballots on which voters write in candidates' names themselves. On the other hand, sometimes the old methods have their points. The ancient Greeks, who invented the tumult of democracy, voted by tossing stones into a bowl: white for yes, black for no--hence "blackballed." There is no recorded problem of "hanging chads," though chipping might have been an issue. Best of all, it was cost effective. Rocks can be reused every year...
...drug. Horsley's websites have been criticized in the past for inciting violence: Buffalo, N.Y., abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian was on a Horsley list when he was murdered in 1998. Not guilty, says Horsley. All he does is "write factually verifiable information about [doctors'] evil deeds." A great comfort, no doubt, to those threatened...
...came as some strange comfort on Friday when the U.S. 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...