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...ailing Gore team a lifeline Friday afternoon, granting their request for recounts of undervotes, Gore thought he had a pretty good chance. Now his fate lies in the hands of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices who've already ruled against his cause once before. Bush is reportedly confident SCOTUS will hold firm in their support of his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Q&A | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...SCOTUS send the case back? A: How and why, the U.S. Justices are asking the Florida court, did you come to your decision? SCOTUS is particularly concerned as to whether the Florida high court based their ruling on the Florida constitution or on statutes authored by the state's legislature. (This distinction is critical because the current U.S. Supreme Court generally takes a very hands-off approach to state matters, particularly those within the jurisdiction of state lawmakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Q&A | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

Happily for today's graduates, disputations in Latin on theses philologicae et philosophicae, including propositions by Aristotle and Duns Scotus, is no longer a requirement at Commencement...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salvete Omnes: The History of the Latin Oration | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...American Way, Justice -- as in the Juducial Branch -- seems to be doing most of the talking. Well, Ken, it was the Supreme Court who brought you Monica, and Judge Johnson who let you get all the way up the ladder with Bruce Lindsey and the Secret Service. But SCOTUS giveth, and SCOTUS taketh away. As one lucky criminal (not a President) says with heavy irony in The Star Chamber (1983), "God bless f---ing America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potato Chamber | 6/5/1998 | See Source »

...explain "the actual existence here and now of a merely possible cosmos," something that preserves it in being and prevents it from being replaced by nothingness. Color that cause God. Philosopher Ross contends that this interesting argument was stated more successfully in the 13th century by his hero, Duns Scotus. Adler does not think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modernizing the Case for God | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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