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Ranked 33rd going into the NITC, Harvard knocked off number 15 Texas Christian University, 4-3, and number nine Louisiana State University...
...care about democracy, the map of Louisiana should scare you. I don't mean the regular map of the boot-shaped state; I mean the new Congressional districting map. The United States Supreme Court didn't like it, and neither should...
...most recent attempt to redistrict the state of Louisiana, several of the eight districts wiggled and wobbled, extending amoeba-like pseudopods in all directions in attempts to corral voters. Of course, these voters had to meet certain demographic characteristics. One district in the central part of the state wandered in every compass direction and, even worse, wasn't even contiguous. In fairness, Texas, North Carolina and Massachusetts had similarly strange boundaries...
...above logic poses an immense threat to the electoral process and the national identity First of all, campaign issues could boil down to race or economic status rather than political stances. In places like Louisiana, integration would become more difficult and virtually race-based provinces like those in South Africa would develop. With homogeneous communities, political machines could be reborn. Because of the relative heterogeneity of different districts, a state's delegation could become fractured...
Others said the Roundtable's action was not so much a vote for Cooper as it was a political hit on Clinton. Even John Breaux, the Louisiana Senator who co-sponsored the Cooper bill, told TIME he had never spoken with anyone at the Roundtable about his bill. "I'd like to say it's the most critical thing that's happened so far in the health-care debate," said Breaux, "but I can't, because it's not true." Junior White House officials spread out to say, as one put it, that "we never intended to win this thing...