Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Desperation started to set in for the Saints towards the end of the first stanza, but they still could not put one over the line. At 14:41, Suzanne Fiacco nabbed a rebound from a shot into Ruddock's pads right off the face-off, but was unable to bury the puck...
...vibrancy of a university depends on the depth and breadth of its student organizations and the diversity of views which those organizations represent. Organizations do have a right to be selective in their membership, especially when the group is based on traditional religious beliefs. However, such organizations, so long as they are funded and recognized by the university, must be willing to accept students with differing views active participants, members and officers. The university should be a strong voice for inclusion and tolerance. If the university does not support such a policy, organizations can easily slip into narrow-minded dogmatism...
...code of conduct in a democracy--the assumption of good faith that allows politicians to quarrel one day and compromise the next--was sacrificed to the reality that only one of these men can be President, that there is no middle ground. Each man was so sure he was right that he had a duty to try to win at all costs. And so the costs kept rising...
...sooner had Gore won the right to a recount than the Republican counteroffensive began--even though many states, including Texas, consider hand counts to be reliable. The judges who endorsed the recounts were denounced as biased; the exhausted counters were accused of attempting an in-broad-daylight theft of the presidency--even though Palm Beach County turned up far fewer extra Gore votes than anyone expected because of their stricter rules about counting dimpled ballots. Democrats were also stunned by Nassau County, a G.O.P. stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than...
...democracy in action. If Jesse Jackson can do it, the Republicans argued, so can we. But the G.O.P.'s march turned into a mob. The screaming, the pounding on doors and the alleged physical assaults on Democrats suddenly made a bemused public queasy. "I'm all for anyone's right to protest," says Miami-Dade Democratic chairman Joe Geller, who had to have a police escort. "These were Brownshirt tactics...