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...against unreasoned restrictions that denigrate others’ personal worth, or against discrimination based on a flawed stereotype (such as if the math club excluded women because “gi rls can’t do math”). But if the College accepts selection based on the flimsiest of criteria—“who I want to have lunch with”—then can it honestly require the members of the Fly, should they too seek official recognition, to want to have lunch with someone female...
Harvard justifies its secrecy in this case on the flimsiest grounds. Publicizing the names of candidates, the committee reasons, would discourage strong contenders from allowing themselves to be considered. Especially for candidates with high profile jobs, news that they are considering leaving could be bad for their reputation...
...this line-blurring subjectivity would be public-relations problem for Bush if the Supreme Court hadn't already relieved him of that soft spot in his normally well-forged message. Let them make sense of it all. In taking the case Friday, the Supremes brushed off Bush's flimsiest complaint, that non-hand-counted counties were somehow being deprived of their rights when it was his campaign that decided not to include them in the first place. And now Bush is free to drill for votes in promising places right along with Gore - if he wins in the Supreme Court...
...entirely evasive," he says. "They rejected [a living wage] on the flimsiest of grounds...
...said that she was in the delivery room and she saw an ID bracelet on Johnson's baby before she was taken from the room. Johnson has said that her baby was whisked away for tests before a bracelet was attached. If it turns out there's even the flimsiest of allegations linking Johnson to the switch--and there is no evidence of that now--the two families would doubtless end up in an unprecedented court battle...