Word: dubiously
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...soon to know how the reputation of the court as a whole, and the individual Justices, will ultimately be affected by Bush v. Gore. But one thing is clear: the court has demonstrated in the past that it is fully capable of reasoning its way to dubious decisions. As Chief Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, in a bitter dissent of his own: "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final...
...thus that I have been entrusted with the dubious honor of writing the last Crimson column of the true millennium, a column whose subject is at the same time pre-determined and obsolete, a column of exactly one thousand words that will drop instantly from our printing press to our archives to blessed obscurity, as no one reads The Crimson on the last day before Winter Break. (Including...
...eliminate residual Christian-centrism entirely from University-speak. Last year, for instance, an official Harvard mailing wished us all a "happy millennial observance," displaying an remarkable lack of respect for those faiths that choose not to follow a dating system based upon an obscure Nazarene carpenter's historically dubious birth...
Given Florida's tough laws governing absentee ballots (instituted in 1998, after fraud led to the removal of a Miami mayor), it seems dubious to let party operatives tinker with signed ballot applications. But the proposed remedy--throwing out all 15,000 ballots--seems extreme. The Democrats "have a strong case if we insist on following technicalities," says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs. "But ultimately the application went out to the right person, who ended up being able to vote for whom he wanted. Tossing out the ballots seems to be a very peculiar remedy for the harm...
...this point, more Americans are going to be dubious about a President Gore than a President Bush because they're inclined to feel that Gore will be installed by a bunch of folks in black robes and by a counting standard that is purely subjective, even fanciful...