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...election where a hundred million votes were cast, Harvard's Florida students say they were struck by just how meaningful their individual decisions were...
Apparently this all struck some Gore supporters down in Florida as much harder than it sounds. They either accidentally voted once for Buchanan or, realizing their mistake, punched a second time and had their ballots disqualified. Thus were they, according to Gore campaign chair William Daley--drum roll please--"disenfranchised." Lawsuits on their behalf, challenging the validity of the election, are pending in the Florida courts...
...Crimson couldn't celebrate for long, however, as the Catamounts struck back to cut the lead to 3-2, 33 seconds later...
...forthcoming in acknowledging that he drank too much in the past," says Hughes. The reason he did not disclose the D.U.I. arrest specifically, she says, is that he did not want his behavior to set a bad example for his twin daughters, now freshmen in college--an excuse that struck some listeners as similar to one that President Clinton gave for lying about Monica Lewinsky...
...struck by the implausibility of Clinton because of the Lewinsky scandal and the more prosaic fact that he had no previous connection to Harvard," Noah says in an interview, referring to flying rumors that President Clinton would be considered...