Word: final
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While the final recount is completed, the hanging chads tabulated, the overseas ballots enumerated and the lawsuits filed, resolved and dismissed, we have a fleeting chance to stop and ask what -- if anything -- we can learn from this wonderful, ridiculous, improbably close first election of the new millennium...
...hand count could swing the final vote in favor of Vice President Al Gore '69. But Texas Gov. George W. Bush cannot try to block the hand recount and expect to emerge from this campaign as a man of integrity--whether or not he becomes our next president. As much as the arguments for advocating or dismissing the hand count are colored by partisan interests, the fair administration of elections is not a partisan issue...
...solved the press after Harvard's initial run, the Crimson abandoned it entirely in the second half. Focusing its defense on the half court proved effective, as Croucher was no longer able to wreak havoc on the fly. Harvard held him to four second-half points, and the final score approached the blowout that seemed likely in the game's early stages...
Trailing 35-30, with 3:31 remaining, Penn had a golden-- and perhaps final--opportunity to win the game when cornerback Fred Plaza intercepted Harvard junior quarterback Neil Rose's errant throw at the Harvard 35. But the Harvard defense, as it had done most of the day, held its ground, and forced Hoffman to a fourth down. The pressure came, and Hoffman had no choice but to throw the ball straight up in the air, which then landed harmlessly on the ground...
...share of the Ivy title, Harvard pressed forward. Balestracci made a one-handed interception of a Hoffman bullet, and four plays later, on a fourth down, Rose found Morris on a "flag" pattern near the end zone for a touchdown. That made it 35-27 going into the final minutes of the fourth quarter, before all the final craziness...