Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...called five witnesses. Three discussed the alleged irregularities they personally observed during the Miami-Dade recount process - including dropping ballot boxes, fanning the ballots like cards, doing pretty much everything short of taking the ballots along with them to the bathroom - apparently hoping to establish the fallibility of human hands when it comes to counting ballots and to discredit the idea of recounting once again...
...like, 'Oh, boy! What was I thinking?'" His feet rest on the coffee table in his office, next to a tiny version of himself, a "Braveheart" doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with the aging, there's not much for him to be sad about...
...There is hardly a human way to build anything in Cambridge right now," he said at a town-hall meeting with students that was the final event of the council's "Days of Dialogue" series...
...morality do sometimes overlap, but mostly, the law is an arbitrary set of rules that tries, however imperfectly and even nobly, to make sense of human behavior. The law, as Aaron Burr (who was not a notable upholder of it) once said, is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained...
...American voters, all conspired against Gore and those who wanted to vote for him. Is that right? Hmm, no. Is that just? Probably not. Is it fair? Well, yes, I'd have to say it is. It's fair because those are the breaks. It's fair because no human system is perfect. And it's fair because, well, because life...