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...Coalition, one of several groups directing the petition drive, recently enlisted the aid of several Harvard affiliates in an attempt to garner support from the Harvard community...
PUTTING THE WORDS "Supreme Court" and "campaign" together yields a phrase as oxymoronic as "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp." By requiring Justices to grovel before the people in order to garner votes, California--and most other states, for that matter--violates one of the most crucial tenets of American constitutionalism. For the judiciary to check and restrain the other two branches of government, judges must be free from the pressures of electoral politics. To elect judges--and thereby force them to be responsive to the whims of the electorate--is to sacrifice long-term justice to the political trends...
...available. The council has elected new officers, all of whom mouth platforms of new concern for student issues. These issues are important but what is more important than any of them individually is the issue of the council itself. In its four-year history, the organization has yet to garner any real respect from the administration, students or--judging from last year's attendance problems--from its own members...
...Astros, wasting one chance after another, did not score until the seventh on Phil Garner's RBI single. By then, it was too late...
Invitations to the NCAA post-season tournament are extended to the top two New England squads--and the booters are gunning to return to NCAA play after failing to garner a bid last year...