Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Mired for three years in community meetings and protest, the Cambridge Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission (MCNCDC) at last gave the building the green light to proceed in September...
Bill Daley, Gore Campaign Chair, called the decision "rash" in light of the pending legal matters...
...America is supposed to be 'a light unto the nations,'" he said. "We play that role for emerging democracies, but reducing the outcome of the election to a few counties in Florida doesn't make sense. The Electoral College teaches people who live in small states that their votes don't really matter, that it's only the states with more electoral votes that matter...
...President Clinton ordered the review in order to shed greater light on the U.S. role in Chilean democracy's darkest period, and the picture that emerges is far from pretty. But while there are unlikely to be any political recriminations in the U.S. at this point - notwithstanding the fact that former president George Bush was CIA director for some of the years under consideration - the latest documents may be bad news for General Pinochet. Chile's high court has stripped away the immunity he awarded himself as the price for relinquishing power, and only last week courts ordered...
...have thousands of votes for Vice President Al Gore '69 disappearing from a single county in New Mexico in a recount because of a "computer glitch." We see electors holding ballots up to the light, attempting to channel the voter who may or may not have meant to punch all the way through the flimsy card. We are told of "hanging chads," pieces of the ballot where the stylus should have punched all the way through and detached a small round confetti-like piece of paper, but instead leave the piece hanging by a cellulose thread. These chads, among other...