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...Rose-to-Morris combination is crucial to Harvard's success in The Game, which ought to feature plenty of offense. Although he is disappointed that Harvard is out of Ivy title contention, Morris is not a "coulda, shoulda" player. He took the Cornell and Penn losses to heart, but insists he will be up for Yale...
Ostracism, as it originated in ancient Greece, meant that the citizens cast votes on ostraca (potsherds or tiles) on the question of whether someone in their midst was so disruptive or so loathsome to the community that he ought to be invited out of town - exiled for a period of 10 years. The undesirable one would lose no property, or otherwise be harmed. He would simply be told, for the general good, to get lost for a decade...
...Regardless of the situation in 1787 [at the Constitutional Convention], for most purposes people think of our nation as a contiguous unit and that popular sovereignty is ultimately most important. The goal ought to be to keep state sovereignty minimal in favor of national unity," he said...
...Well, that's what it's all about - the counting of the votes. The Bush stance is that they've already been counted not once but twice, the Gore stance that one more, by hand, ought to do it. With Broward County and Palm Beach County waiting for the go-ahead in counts that Gore camper David Boies said "would only take a week," the Democrat argument is now, "why don't we just get started...
...Well, that's what it's all about - the counting of the votes. The Bush stance is that they've already been counted not once but twice, the Gore stance that one more, by hand, ought to do it. With Broward County and Palm Beach County waiting for the go-ahead in counts that Gore camper David Boies said "would only take a week," the Democrat argument is now, "why don't we just get started...