Word: briefed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When gore put down the phone, he pumped his arm in victory, the aides around him burst into cheers, and all began to applaud. Outside in the cold, damp night, his supporters were waiting for word. For a brief time, they debated the idea of rewriting the concession speech and sending Gore out to capture the moment of suspended animation. The Veep's concern was that all these people had waited hours in the rain, and they would want to see him in person. But they quickly decided to send Daley out instead. Daley and Karenna stood over speechwriter...
Earlier this year, The Crimson wondered if Yale had finally entered a period of renaissance. Three of the four major-party candidates for president and vice president hailed from (or, in Dick Cheney's case, attended for a brief period of time) the New Haven eyesore...
...freakish departure from the school's decidedly subpar norms. Rather than entering a new period of enlightenment and detoxification, Yale is slipping back into its long-accustomed Dark Ages. The iron gates in front of its dormitories can barely withstand the Viking onslaughts and stray bullets, and Yale's brief moment in the sun is revealed as an Indian summer before the long, howling winter of Eli discontent...
...company has maintained separate bathrooms for foreign employees; Yale has maintained a separate admissions program for foreign students. Texas Gov. George W. Bush is hesitant to put lives at risk in military interventions in far-off lands; Yale students are hesitant to put their lives at risk in brief excursions through the streets of New Haven. Both candidates have emphasized the need for better cleanup of toxic brownfields; New Haven happens to be a toxic brownfield...
...Justices of the United States Supreme Court to argue their case. Bush claimed the Florida State Supreme Court overstepped its bounds in ordering an extension of the certification deadline, while the Gore team argued the high court was operating within its jurisdiction. Last Monday, the Justices issued an unsigned brief "vacating" the Florida Supreme Court's decision and asking that court to clarify its reasoning. On December 11, the Court reissued a 6-1 opinion, with Chief Justice Wells dissenting...