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...episodes (Lisa is terribly depressed at the thought of going to Brown), and more directly, the characters on the show potentially walk amongst us. I can't sit through an hour of "Justice" without thinking, "Is Montgomery Burns modeled after Professor Michael Sandel? Yes--look--he's doing the finger thing." I am not the only student asking myself this question. In a straw poll of a "Justice" class this year about 85 percent of the students voted "The Simpsons" a higher form of pleasure than Shakespeare. One of my roommates claims that the Simpsons is one of two things...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Everybody Can Eat My Shorts Together | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

Sasso passed around a handful of ballot cards--"not from Florida," he assured. Using a paper clip--the same he said was sent in the mail to absentee voters using punch cards--he urged his audience to vote. "Look at them, hold them up," he said, running his finger along the crisp side. "Do you see light...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sasso Lectures KSG Class on Florida Ballots | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...Johnson] has his finger on the pulse of the average, apathetic Harvard student," Barkley says. "He speaks to issues in the way students understand them. It'll be fun running with him because we know each other well...

Author: By Margaretta E. Homsey and Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Election Profile: Justin A. Barkley & Adam M. Johnson | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...with that, America reached DefCon 1, with Feeney's finger just above the glowing red button. A state legislature hasn't disregarded its popular vote and sent its own electors to Congress since 1876. But by joint proclamation with state senate president John McKay, Feeney can summon all state legislators to Tallahassee for a special session to do just that, even as early as this week. That could precipitate an almost unimaginable series of constitutional nightmares, from a divided U.S. Congress fighting over what to do with the Florida electors to the U.S. Supreme Court having to choose our next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: The Florida Gambit | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...eight Republicans and six Democrats to investigate "voting irregularities" such as the failure to count all overseas military ballots and the differing standards of the manual recounts. But if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the Bush petition this week, all eyes will be back on the man with his finger on the constitutional trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: The Florida Gambit | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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