Word: contestability
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...points Rohan R. Gulrajani '01 raises about California's energy crisis (Column, Dec. 18) are well-taken. I strongly contest, however, the idea that the unbridled free market is the answer to this dilemma for several reasons. Ignoring for a minute the fact that Americans' perception of the supply of energy is woefully out of whack with reality (and hence so is the market's), the unbridled free market's effect on the energy situation is nonetheless undesirable. True, demand might go down in response to higher prices, but precisely the wrong group would be affected: as usual, the poor...
...showdown between the Florida and the U.S. Supreme courts is really no contest. Under federalism, the U.S. Supreme Court can overrule state courts where issues of federal law are involved. But the real drama lies in whether five Justices will actually decide to do that. Unlike the high court's first ruling in the case, which was carefully if precariously unanimous, the latest one broke down in just the ideological way everyone had hoped to avoid. The five conservatives--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas--voted to issue...
This election will be remembered as the only presidential contest that has been essentially decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, an unfortunate end to this turbulent process. The Florida Supreme Court's decision should have stood; it alone is the highest judge of Florida's state laws. The U.S. Supreme Court, by intervening in this issue when it clearly could not come up with a convincing, one-sided decision, has not upheld its duty to impartially enforce the law. By the admission of the dissenting justices, the court may have permanently damaged its credibility as a nonpartisan institution...
Hance described the race to The Crimson as a contest of two colorful--and political--personalities...
Harvard's game tonight is a difficult contest in New Hampshire versus UNH, the No. 5 team in the country...