Word: processing
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...good news is that this can be easily fixed by the powers that be, who in this case happen to be Dean Lewis. The most ideal solution is simply to endorse all nominally qualified applicants. With the notoriously intense Rhodes interview process, which while not random is certainly a hit or miss experience, it is in Harvard's best interest to field as many candidates as possible. When those tossing the questions are so 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...
...these changes are made, Lewis and Gerson can rest assured that Harvard's present impotence in the Rhodes competition is indeed a statistical fluke and not the result of a miscalibrated endorsement process. Future applicants too can then know it was the stars that were aligned against them rather than the system...
...George W. Bush got five votes for the presidency from five Justices who knew what it was to look at an electoral process and its officers, and wince. Al Gore got only his chance for a graceful exit and his bogeymen, from a Court split three and a half ways but plenty clear-cut in the dissent for Democrats to understand who was on their side. And the decision - decisions, really - were such a buzzing, conflicted horde that Gore didn't concede, and Bush didn't celebrate, because there was a lot of deciphering to do first. The nation will...
...morning papers. He had talked to Bush and Cheney. "They are of course very pleased and gratified that seven Justices agreed there were constitutional problems with the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court," he said, and thanked the legal team. "This has been a long and arduous process for everyone involved on both sides. Thank you, and good evening." A coded victory speech, and a very short one. He was still calling Bush "governor," and Bush was still waiting for Gore...
...apples of theoretical democratic perfection got locked in a struggle to the death with the oranges of constitutional process (the equal protection clause and Article II of the Constitution...