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...hand count could swing the final vote in favor of Vice President Al Gore '69. But Texas Gov. George W. Bush cannot try to block the hand recount and expect to emerge from this campaign as a man of integrity--whether or not he becomes our next president. As much as the arguments for advocating or dismissing the hand count are colored by partisan interests, the fair administration of elections is not a partisan issue...
Granted, the University cannot be held responsible for freak accidents, but many of the problems that have been occurring are clearly predictable and preventable. For example, the recent problems with the elevators in Pforzheimer House, which stalled for hours at a time, were the result of aging. Perhaps the elevators should have been replaced earlier to prevent students from getting trapped for hours at a time...
With student safety already in a particularly precarious state this year because of the several major construction projects sprouting on campus, the University cannot afford to continue having this many disruptions of student life. Unless the administration is willing to make it clear that student safety will always be its first priority, we would recommend an addition to the typical Harvard winter wardrobe: a hard...
...were about a quarter of a million children in the country's foster-care systems. Today that number has doubled, to between 550,000 and 560,000 children. Often these are held hostage to abuse and neglect, to bureaucratic foul-ups and carelessness, condemned to futures in which dreams cannot come true. President Clinton and Congress boast of new legislation and funding to move children more quickly from foster care to adoption. Indeed, there has been an increase in those numbers. Many foster parents too continue to act selflessly as important way stations for at-risk kids while their biological...
...there is no flexibility because the system is stretched to its limit. Some agencies have become so desperate to place children that any bed will do. Kids are being sent to foster homes with no forethought, and the states cannot guarantee their safety. Furthermore, the number of kids needing foster care is exceeding the number of families available to care for them. Even the most devoted of foster parents are dropping out of the programs, frustrated at times by a lack of support--as well as legal roadblocks to adopting the children if they so choose...