Word: lets
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...sense of Harvard pride grows in us from the day we receive our acceptance letters. It can be beneficial for us while we're here. The thought "I am at Harvard, ergo I am golden" helps us get through unsatisfactory grades, disappointing auditions and unsuccessful interviews. Because our let-downs operate within the context of being a Harvard student, as long as we can maintain perspective, life is usually manageable...
...rules against Gore. "Nobody has the stomach for this stretching beyond early December," says a senior aide to one Democratic Senator. Even Gore's campaign aides see an unfavorable ruling as a death blow. "They could lock it up for Bush," says a longtime adviser. "For Gore, they could let him live, but they can't lock...
...judge to sigh during a hearing last week. "Do you have a magnifying glass?" he quipped. "I need stronger glasses." Says Richard McFarlain, former general counsel for the Florida Republican Party: "He's a lot of fun to be around. But when you're in court with him, let him crack the first joke...
Goard, a Republican described as a stickler for the rules, said she didn't have enough workers to fill in missing ID numbers, as election officials in other counties were doing. But in a questionable display of judgment, she let two G.O.P. workers spend 10 days in her office writing in the numbers on some 2,000 forms. "All I did was provide these people with a chair in my outer office," Goard has said. "I would have allowed the Democrats to do the same thing." But the Democratic form didn't have the same flaw. And once the applications...
Given Florida's tough laws governing absentee ballots (instituted in 1998, after fraud led to the removal of a Miami mayor), it seems dubious to let party operatives tinker with signed ballot applications. But the proposed remedy--throwing out all 15,000 ballots--seems extreme. The Democrats "have a strong case if we insist on following technicalities," says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs. "But ultimately the application went out to the right person, who ended up being able to vote for whom he wanted. Tossing out the ballots seems to be a very peculiar remedy for the harm...