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...ideals. For better or worse (likely better), the United States is not a constitutional monarchy. We do not have a figurehead whose job it is to give thanks for our good fortune, to address the nation in times of crisis or to place an official seal on statements and make them the words of the nation as a whole. These are not insignificant tasks--they require someone to whom we can entrust the gravity and power of our collective voice--but politicians, who must seek votes, have rarely been any good at accomplishing them. A president who cannot command moral...
Rosen ended with a final endorsement of Gore in response to a question on whether he expected the court to make a major decision on gay rights under the next administration...
Nonetheless, due to my consciousness of wasted Cracklin' Oat Bran, I make it a habit to skim the conveyor belt at every meal. Most of the time, I see many plates with a substantial amount of food on them. An all-you-can-eat buffet, such as the ones in Harvard's dining halls, unfortunately encourages this waste...
...course, having inside info is useless unless you can employ it to make yourself look really smart. So if you listen closely, you can hear intimations of what the polls say, or don't, in the coverage. "It does promise to be a long night," Tom Brokaw said starting out tonight; likewise, NBC News's Campbell Brown said "It's very intense [at the Bush campaign] today - there's a lot of tension, a lot of nervousness, a real sense of helplessness." (Without giving away the store, none of this means Gore's a winner; but it indicates that...
...giving the award for the first time here because Florida, as mentioned above, was the key call of the night - though this ends nothing. And we're giving it the award for the last time here because I believe these meaningless fights over who's 0.8 seconds faster to make whatever call are irrelevant to everyone and probably the cause of a lot of boneheaded journalistic decisions...