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...social scene that is not located in the dorms. I am talking of those houses one might confuse as pretentious fraternities—final clubs. Even more shocking than my first experience of a dorm party was my first experience at a final club. To explain why, let me recount a story of fraternity rush week my freshman year at UCLA. Parallel to the many complaints that final clubs receive about unfair perks exclusive to men, the girls at UCLA protested as frats found new and exciting ways to persuade men to join while the sororities had a strict...
Tribe also represented then-Vice President Al Gore ’69 in the legal battle over the 2000 Florida recount...
...Bush v. Gore, which many Democrats saw as sneaky Republican prestidigitation to give George W. Bush the White House. It was one of the few decisions in which Rehnquist supported the use of federal power to restrict a state, one whose supreme court had ordered a manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. But Rehnquist didn't win them all, and his first years on the court were often spent in lonely dissents. And over the years, he mellowed. In 2000, he angered conservatives by personally penning the opinion upholding Miranda v. Arizona, the decision requiring police...
...Gore, which many Democrats saw as sneaky conservative prestidigitation to give George W. Bush the White House. It was one of the few decisions in which Rehnquist supported the use of federal power to restrict a state, in this case Florida, whose supreme court had ordered a manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. The court ruled that because Florida counties had no consistent standard for such a recount, the votes statewide might not be treated equally if a recount proceeded...
George Whittington, of the Australian Army's 2/10th Battalion, was one of more than 500,000 men from his country and New Zealand who traveled overseas to fight in World War II. The sacrifices they made are chastening to recount: Australia lost nearly 34,000 killed; New Zealand's 12,000 toll was the highest per head of population of any Commonwealth nation - at 6,700 per million, more than Britain's 5,100 or Australia...