Word: collisional
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Situation Report: Having presided over Russia's catastrophic economic and social decline, Boris Yeltsin has now been replaced by a president with ambitions to restore Moscow?s big-power status. And President Vladimir Putin is quite happy to step on Washington's toes to do that, increasingly staking out positions...
Situation Report: Slobodan Milosevic may be nothing more than an irrelevant opposition leader now, but the Balkans' woes are from over. Kosovo's Albanians still want independence, but most of NATO is inclined to keep the territory nominally under Serb sovereignty although autonomous for all practical purposes. European NATO powers...
But this one threatened a constitutional crisis: the collision of legislatures and courts of a kind unseen in more than a century. Re-enter the Rehnquist court. Amid the chaos, somebody had to play Daddy. Its earlier admonition having been ignored, the Supreme Court eschewed subtlety this time and bluntly...
The ideal (count every vote, impartially) had a head-on collision with the imperfect (the machines stink, the recount standards varied wildly, and there wasn't time anyway).
Since so many of us migrants were crowding into the Harvard side, the police had to force us to move back to our assigned seats. In the ensuing unwilling return back to the dreaded Section 11, we missed the record-setting touchdown return by Okechukwu "Chuck" U. Nwokocha '01. Ninety...