Word: elect
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...members of a large, autonomous organization, Crimson staffers are privileged to write whatever they like and elect whichever staffers they so choose--according to their own collective best judgment. There are no "adults" to interfere capriciously with the process...
...closely. After keeping quiet at Gore's insistence for six months, the President may have to zip it for six more years. Senator-elect Clinton personally choreographed her victory celebration. She stood between her new colleague, senior New York Senator Charles Schumer, and Chelsea, with the President banished to the side. There would be no Tipper-Al embrace for them. He wiped away a tear. She shed none. His staff explained, "It was her night." There will be no co-senatorship...
Gore campaign manager William Daley, appearing at a rally of 75 Democratic Party lawyers, chanting and waving gloves in the air, calls President-quasi-elect Bush a "banana Republican." He vows to charter "a fleet of 747s" and fly the entire membership of the Trial Lawyers Association to Tallahassee...
President-quasi-elect Bush announces that in the spirit of unity government, he will nominate Al Gore to be his Transportation Secretary...
...then what? Instead of concentrating on the President-elect's appointments and agenda, we would see weeks of argument that he should not, in fact, be the new President. We would see the new Congress, whose first job is to certify or reject these votes, embroiled in furious partisan debate. We're talking about the de-legitimizing of the new President before he ever puts his hand on the Bible on Jan. 20. The spectacle of the most powerful country on earth enmeshed in a crisis-cum-farce would do us little good in world opinion--or in the financial...