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...stunning displays of incompetence were repeated in Florida’s 2002 democratic gubernatorial primary—finally conceded on Tuesday evening by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno after a week of recounts—is nothing less than mind-boggling. It’s one thing to fail to anticipate a problem; it is quite another to be aware of a flawed system and replace it with something that might even be worse...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 9/19/2002 | See Source »

Harvard must continue UConn’s slump and emerge victorious in order to keep its national standing high. Games like tonight’s will be all-important in terms of NCAA selection should the Crimson fail to unseat eight-time defending Ivy champion Princeton for the league’s automatic berth...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undefeated Field Hockey Faces UConn in Prime Time | 9/18/2002 | See Source »

...unpleasant truth. That truth, the awkward secret lurking behind this day’s solemn pomp, is that the dead of last September died for no reason at all. The search for meaning, what might crassly be called “closure,” is doomed to fail. These dead have died in vain...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: A Hierarchy of Death | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

...move, detailed to the school in an Aug. 23 memo by HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, came after the Air Force determined in May that the school’s ban on employers who fail to adhere to a nondiscrimination policy was not in compliance with a federal statute...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Air Force To Recruit At Law School | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...observers continue to make last year’s undefeated title squad the standard for this season, the Crimson will only be set up to fail...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don’t Bet on Repeat | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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