Word: slates
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...meatier possibility is that the Supreme Court - and abortion - could be ready to work for Gore. The latest slate of decisions, once digested, may have gotten some, women in particular, worried about aging Justices and four to eight years of a conservative president. Bush is playing down the issue, but if he makes abortion a litmus test for his veep, why not his Justices? If Bush does as expected and ditches Tom Ridge (or George Pataki) next week for a pro-life running mate, Gore may find that a potent weapon has fallen right into...
...however, doesn't end the party's woes. Buchanan is the lead contender for the nomination, but he faces a strong challenge from JOHN HAGELIN, who also represents the Natural Law Party. Meanwhile, Perotians are trying to put "No endorsement" on the party's ballot. If such a blank slate were to win, the party might not have a nominee, meaning it would lose its $12 million in federal matching funds and its party status for 2004. It would join the ranks of most American third parties, which have quickly faded away...
...listen to some of the voices I've ignored over the last four years, and I stopped longest at my favorite plaque, on the right wall of the gate opposite the Science Center, where Emerson's journal entry from a day in 1836 is inscribed in elegant lettering. The slate tablet speaks more quietly than the shouts of the marble or granite inscriptions in the Yard, but its message is particularly resonant at this Commencement time. Emerson's quotation provides an unintentional counter to the pithy but complacent idea that can imply the worst about Harvard's priority system...
...ultimately made The Crimson my home, I still cannot say. In a recent interview, former Crimson editor and current Slate magazine honcho Michael E. Kinsley '72 remarked of his peers, "It's the bitterness and resentment of better-looking people that spurs us all to become journalists." Perhaps, although I like to believe that I possess a certain boyish charm...
...addition, Harvard will attempt to master a new slate of teams, since its Odeneal Division title qualifies the Crimson for the Hay Division. With two decisive wins this season over Queens, a perennial Hay powerhouse, Harvard demonstrated that there is reason for optimism next season...