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...must be willing to accept students with differing views active participants, members and officers. The university should be a strong voice for inclusion and tolerance. If the university does not support such a policy, organizations can easily slip into narrow-minded dogmatism and the open dialogue which a university ought to provide becomes untenable...
There was plenty of time for a fair and thorough recount after Election Day, and there was nothing to stop Katherine Harris from using her discretion to allow one. Al Gore says there's still time. We all ought to hope he's right about that, because if he's wrong--if it's too late--we have just done serious damage to American democracy. Not fatal damage, to be sure. But just a month ago we thought it was invulnerable...
...well. In times of national crisis, you don't question your government for raising taxes to fund the war effort. So must it be now with the Red Sox. As long as the team keeps its word and spends everything that comes into its coffers on personnel, everyone ought pay his fair share...
...bond between brother and sister--to sustain our interest. He is content to keep his frame and his comic, angry surprises small. Yet a great intensity results from this steady, persistent compression. Maybe these lives are, objectively speaking, inconsequential. But they have a resonance that big, sappy "relationship" pictures ought to envy...
...gave off an aura of confidence that somehow the system would work--not in weeks but in days. As he earnestly told a Russian TV reporter one night, "This doesn't happen very often here in this country. It's not a question of legal maneuvering. And it ought not to be a question of politics. It's a question of whom did the voters want." The Russian walked off, nodding in agreement. Now Boies has to convince the courts and the court of public opinion...