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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Texas Gov. George W. Bush takes Florida and its 25 Electoral College votes, he will win the presidency, even though current counts show him behind Vice President Al Gore '69 in the popular vote...
...there are powerful arguments for retaining the Electoral College, even though it may elect a president against the nation's popular will, note several professors of government...
Reviews are not all bad, though, even from critics. For the most part teachers praise the deans who run their small schools. The deans make decisions about curriculum, as well as tending to discipline matters and filling in for sick teachers when there's no substitute teacher...
...issue wasn't whether gay and lesbians should adopt children or receive legal protection from discrimination in the workplace. This wasn't the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, hate crimes or even separate but equal civil unions. It wasn't even about Nebraska. Rather it was the possibility that another state might legalize gay marriage, and that in due course Nebraska would be forced to recognize the requisite civil rights and legal prerogatives associated with marriage licenses from that state...
...ballot language didn't spell out what was at stake, commentators everywhere, including the editorial boards of the state's three major newspapers, made it abundantly clear the proposition was a referendum on the decency of Nebraska itself. Even the football coach came out against it. Was Nebraska going to keep an open mind on the question of gay rights or define itself as absolutely intolerant...