Word: ouch
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...make the final cut. "He'll go into our pool and be considered seriously," Robert G. Stone of the Harvard Corporation told the Associated Press. But, Stone continued - and here's the tough part, Al - "Gore doesn't have the academic or intellectual standing" required for the job. Ouch. Others involved in the selection process are more equivocal in their dismissals, but the message stands: Even the wonkiest politicians aren't guaranteed special treatment in Cambridge. (And you thought it was hard to get into Harvard...
...second-guess them, the Florida justices said. Better still, the court found that he wrongly held the Gore plaintiffs to an onerous "standard of a reasonable probability" of a recount changing the outcome; it said he failed to notice that the relevant statute had been changed last year. Ouch...
...OUCH - Martin Travis, challenger to Rep. Barney Frank, claimed he was more qualified because he has worked in the private sector, owns a home and is raising a family--unlike Frank, who is openly gay. Travis lost by a large margin in Frank's solidly Democratic district...
...offering another ergonomic design: a rubber grip on handlebars with a built-in suspension system to eliminate vibration on your ulnar nerve, which extends from the underside of your forearm to your pinkie and ring finger. When you grasp the handlebars long and hard, you pinch this nerve. Result: ouch...
...appeals, is mutual. "The judge simply got it wrong," says a senior Microsoft attorney. "He committed errors from the start of the proceeding and became more and more confused as time went on. He doesn't have special expertise in economics. He's a trial-court judge." Ouch...