Word: questions
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...announcement on Friday did not come as a surprise, however. Cleary has privately communicated a desire to retire over the past couple of years, and discussed the matter more intently with Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles over the past months, Knowles said. The biggest question for Cleary, he said, was a matter of timing...
...that go with it. By comparison, what's going on here is almost an innocent minuet. It doesn't happen very often, and it isn't fun to watch, but we now have all three legs of our government out on the dance floor, all twirling around the same question: Who picks our Presidents, anyway? The Executive, the courts or the Legislative Branch? Or the people, however we count them...
...most intriguing issues is the question of irreparable harm. To get a stay, a party has to show it will suffer permanent damage without it. The damage of halting the count seems clear: it will be hard for Gore to win the election if the counting is put off much longer. But it is Bush who got the stay--and Bush who the majority said would be harmed if the counting continued. What would the harm be? It could, Scalia writes, cast "a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of his election." It's a tricky argument...
...didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting for a thorough recount and then open the next segment with the question "When, in the name of the American people, will this madness...
...your life, either. As students that will go on to lead this society, the attitudes that we have and our ideas about success in life are crucial to the direction of that society--especially at a time when we are most likely to form those attitudes, in college. The question is, do we know what we really want...