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Moore grabbed a secondary assist off of Schwefel's wrist shot to put Harvard up 2-1 at 10:29 in the second. Freshman winger Dennis Packard worked through some traffic and put the puck on Schwefel's stick. Schwefel launched the game-winner into Golden Knights netminder Shawn Grant's glove. Grant couldn't hang onto it, allowing the puck to trickle across the line...
...winner-take-all system has no justification," he said...
Over 250 people died in the violence following the presidential elections in Cote d'Ivoire on October 22. The unrest began when Gen. Robert Guei, leader of a coup that overthrew the government on Christmas Eve in 1999, declared himself the winner and dissolved the election commission just as exit polls indicated that Laurent Gbagbo of the Popular Front opposition party was leading. Hundreds of Ivorians took to the streets in a mass uprising that rivaled that of the Yugoslavs against Slobodan Milosevic. Military support for Guei was weak and eventually he fled the country, leaving Gbagbo to declare victory...
...other hand, not becoming president makes a man - in this case, two men - seem ever more ridiculous. History has gone outside the box. We don't get one prince, but two toads. Not one winner, but two losers. We react with derision and contempt...
...could, that is, if a very specific chain of events comes to pass. And this is where things get ultra-complicated: If the recount leaves Gore the winner, could the Florida legislature still override the recount tally and name their own Bush-friendly slate of electors? According to Robert Bennett, constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, the answer to that question depends on one's interpretation of a specific statute, which holds that the legislature can become involved only if there is a "failure of the choice process." If one defines Election Day as the "choice process," the legislature...