Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...eyes of the nation focus on another Harvard-Yale contest--the still-undecided race between Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Yale Class of 1968--this year's Game festivities will begin long before tomorrow's 12:30 p.m. kickoff...
...Moreover, it's timely that this fall's presidential race, a contest between expanding market forces and the widening responsibilities of the state, featured a Harvard man, Vice President Al Gore '69, and a Yale man, Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Bush also graduated from Harvard Business School, although it didn't seem to help him in the Texas oil business...
...Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion that a new poll be held in Palm Beach County was also very familiar in India. "That happens all the time here," says Rahman. "If the Florida electoral commission needs some expertise, India could fly over some officials with plenty of experience in these matters...
...game that was much closer and tenser than the final score would indicate, the Crimson spent much of the contest protecting an early goal by senior forward Ashley Mattison...
...manage to sound like the responsible one. An oddly grinning Gore came out Monday at 4:00 p.m. for a vice-presidential photo-op to call for the process to go on "without any intervening, uh, interference." (Yes, it was Gore, not Bush.) "It's not the contest but our democracy. I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error, or not counted or whatever, and I don't think Gov. Bush wants that either...