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This October, the staff took the irresponsible position of asking the Undergraduate Council to overturn last winter's referendum and request an increase of the student group term bill fee. Having once decided that students at Harvard do not know what is good for them and cannot be trusted to vote in their own interest, the staff has now taken the logical next step and called for Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 to hike the term bill fee unilaterally--and last week, he announced plans to do just that. Such a unilateral hike would be offensive and counterproductive...
...Martin County appeal was already on the way, with one from Seminole on its heels. But the Florida Supreme Court - especially after being cited in the decisions themselves - is thought to be unlikely to overturn the lower courts on this...
...many of us thought that Roe meant we had won," Lambert said. "We didn't realize this was as fragile as it turned out to be," referring to the possibility that a Supreme Court under Bush could overturn the ruling...
...alley coathangers will return women to the reign of an American Taliban. (In the privacy of their own minds, most conservatives, I suspect, believe that as a matter of practical politics and social consensus, it would not be worth setting off a second American civil war by trying to overturn Roe V. Wade...
...lawyer on the Bush team accusing Gore of bringing lawsuits until he gets the result he wants. What an accusation! This is at a time when Bush has just taken a state-election dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bush, more than Gore, has been trying to overturn laws as written with fanciful constitutional arguments. Both sides are pursuing all their legal options with a vengeance. But apparently when Bush does it, he's vindicating the rule of law. When Gore does it, he's trying to change the rules...