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...margin, ruled in favor of an electoral contest suit filed by Vice President Al Gore '69. The ruling rightly set in motion a method of counting the over 43,000 ballots that voting machines had not counted, working to ensure every voter's voice was heard and the winner--whose identity was and is unknown--could rightfully receive Florida's electoral votes through certification tomorrow. Counting these undervotes. not just in Democratic counties, but across the state, was and is the correct thing to do; it seemed able to overturn the growing tide of cynicism that has swept the American...
...first collegiate player selected was seventh pick Anne Makinen, the Notre Dame star who scored the game-winner in the Irish's 2-0 Sweet 16 win over Harvard in November. The 2000 Crimson finished the season ranked 18th in the nation in the final soccer coaches' association poll, which came out last week...
...winner in the election was Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a political figure considered old hat by everyone except the voters. The big loser was the Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day, a political figure considered fresh and exciting by everyone except the voters. (I think the Alliance, a new party, chose an unfortunate name, by the way. What would you call one of its followers--an Alliance-ite?) There were two other candidates, both of whom managed to do better than Ralph Nader without being nearly as sanctimonious...
Canadian elections have historically been forums for debating specific programs. That makes sense in a parliamentary system, since the winner, having won by gaining a legislative majority, has the power to turn his programs into law. If Canadians weren't so polite, which goes along with being orderly, they might point out that the detailed discussions American presidential candidates engage in about programs are virtually meaningless. Partly because of the separation of powers, the new President almost never signs into law the programs he promised. When you look at it that way, the only really important thing about George...
...when you read all this commentary about how the winner of the American presidential election will in some sense have lost, think of Stockwell Day. If his party had triumphed, he could have found himself named Doris Day, the television program's campaign having drawn more than twice the number of signatures that Alliance-ators had considered necessary to put an issue before the people. Every time he rose in Parliament to make a speech, some Liberal smart aleck would shout from the back benches, "Give us a song, Doris!" This is a man who won by losing...