Word: favor
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...announcement that Zanotelli would also run for president took many council members by surprise. A first-year council member, he chose as a running mate council secretary John Bash '03, who just transferred to Harvard from Columbia this fall. Bash has spoken loudly in favor of more openness in the council's activities, designing weekly posters describing the council's activities...
While the council's general elections in the fall are typically won with the votes of friends and blockmates, the presidential election relies on the endorsement of clubs and student groups. Justin A. Barkley '02, who is currently the council treasurer, believes this may work in his favor...
...ruling to allow manual recounts, the canvassing board tried an end run around the court's Sunday deadline by deciding to recount only some 11,000 of Dade's 654,000 ballots. Those disputed ballots, most of which did not register presidential votes in the machines, were thought to favor Gore. Worse, the board moved into a smaller room that cut off public observation. "They denied our legal rights," says Paul Crespo, an ex-Marine and coordinator of a group called Young Professionals for Bush. "We cried foul." In fact, the Republicans, who justifiably delight in throwing 1960s chants back...
...their sacred honor be challenged as well? Gore had attacked Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas during the campaign; would they hold a grudge? Bush had praised them but now faces the possibility that their federalist, hands-off-the-states philosophy makes them less likely to rule in his favor...
...your way to do a favor...