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...afraid to put my head on the line for issues like these," Smith says. "It's important to make our voices heard when...
...unpredictable, it's best to give everyone the chance to hit a home run. If Harvard wishes to continue restricting the number of candidates it endorses for institutional reasons, then at the very least OCS can ensure a full accounting of candidates' worthiness by bringing its endorsement competition in line with the Rhodes selection procedures. This would mean including a full slate of letters of recommendation and perhaps even a round of interviews...
...electors for Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, Congress drafted an electoral commission made up of five senators, five representatives, and five Supreme Court Justices. The Justices were divided two to a party with one centrist, Joseph Bradley, who stayed up all night praying, went Republican down the line, and the rest is history...
...there's another reason: Putin is trying to build a new foreign policy. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, Boris Yeltsin's Russia tried to give up the old Soviet foreign policy and adopt positions more accommodating to the West, and more in line with the thinking of democratic countries. But there was a strong conservative backlash against that policy, particularly from within the security and intelligence establishment, which insisted that Russian national interests were being sold out. Eventually, Boris Yeltsin was forced to succumb to this pressure, and appoint Yevgeny Primakov as his foreign minister, straight from Primakov's position...
...bottom line, explained Boies, is that the undervotes must be counted. Even if there is a deadline looming, he added, there's ample time to count votes in the counties requested by the Gore campaign. "We didn't ask for the statewide recount order, your honors," he said...