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...Granted that the networks had to put something on screen, some of the choices were crass enough to mortify the no-cameras-in-the-court purists; CNN's choice to show the courtroom "won-loss" record of lawyers, for instance, was the sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...
First, be elaborately gracious - for 15 or 20 minutes, anyway. Call for national unity. Congratulate the jerk who beat you. Walk away jauntily, as if you'd won. In a sense, you did. No talk about stolen elections. No "I was robbed!" Don't look back. Americans are sick of the subject, anyway, and have drawn their own conclusions...
Harvard's first-ever loss to Columbia on Saturday brought about the same, immediate knee-jerk reaction from many parties: Harvard should plummet in the rankings and miss the tournament...
...Sunday talk-show hosts' lips, but whenever it did, brother Jeb was there to field it with an appropriate verbal shrug. Yes, there were Democratic squawks from the likes of Bob Kerrey and Carl Levin, wondering why a man so audibly enamored of bipartisanship had been so quick to jerk a chin toward the Gore campaign as an orchestrator of the leak. But if the Republicans protested a little too much (Arlen Specter, we're looking at you and your post-election "hunch"), George W. still has the same slender edge in the national polls, three-quarters of the polled...
Students' knee-jerk reaction against paying higher fees is not a good judge of the value of extracurricular activities--mostly pursued through student organizations. Student groups provide a campus public good, a vital and diverse range of activities for students to become involved in. The fact that an almost overwhelming number of student groups apply for funds from the council every year is a signal of how important this aspect of the council is to students...